{"id":290206,"date":"2025-01-26T16:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T08:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=290206"},"modified":"2025-01-26T16:12:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T08:12:57","slug":"29-hospitalised-after-buses-collided-in-south-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=290206","title":{"rendered":"29 Hospitalised After Buses Collided In South Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>COLOMBO, Jan 26 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8211; At least 29 people were hospitalised, after an accident involving three buses, in Galle, located in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka, this morning, the police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident occurred around 8:30 a.m. and involved privately owned passenger buses, according to the police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Initial reports indicate the accident happened when one bus was stationary, and another collided with it from behind, followed by a third bus crashing into the second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The police recently disclosed that 12,140 people lost their lives in traffic accidents between 2020 and 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response to the increasing number of accidents involving buses, Sri Lankan authorities have been intensifying legal actions against individuals who violate traffic regulations on passenger buses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sri Lankan government has authorised the recruitment of an additional 10,000 police officers, to bolster efforts aimed at preventing road accidents, as well as, conducting anti-crime and anti-drug operations.&#8211; NNN-XINHUA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO, Jan 26 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8211; At least 29 people were hospitalised, after an accident involving three buses, in Galle, located in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka, this morning, the police said. The incident occurred around 8:30 a.m. and involved privately owned passenger buses, according to the police. Initial reports indicate the accident happened when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":290208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,286],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290206"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290207,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290206\/revisions\/290207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/290208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}