{"id":275903,"date":"2024-09-05T16:03:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T08:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=275903"},"modified":"2024-09-05T16:04:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T08:04:18","slug":"peru-boat-sinks-in-amazon-jungle-river-killing-at-least-six-3-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=275903","title":{"rendered":"Peru: Boat sinks in Amazon jungle river, killing at least six; 3 missing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LIMA, Sept 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; At least six people were killed and three are missing after a passenger boat sank on a river in the Peruvian Amazon, the navy and local media said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The accident occurred early on Wednesday morning when the vessel carrying 48 passengers, including several teachers, hit a submerged log which punctured the hull.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;So far we have six dead&#8221; in the accident on the Ucayali River, navy Captain Jonathan Novoa told the Peru Noticias television station. The victims are between 30 and 45 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the passengers were rescued by boats, but three were missing, local media reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police and navy brigades were carrying out a search and the prosecutor&#8217;s office opened an investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The boat had left from the town of Pucallpa, about 727 km northeast of Lima, and was bound for the city of Atalaya. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIMA, Sept 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; At least six people were killed and three are missing after a passenger boat sank on a river in the Peruvian Amazon, the navy and local media said. The accident occurred early on Wednesday morning when the vessel carrying 48 passengers, including several teachers, hit a submerged log which punctured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275903"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275904,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275903\/revisions\/275904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}