{"id":29690,"date":"2019-06-24T08:21:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T00:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=29690"},"modified":"2019-06-24T08:31:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T00:31:53","slug":"22-killed-in-road-accident-in-cameroons-west-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=29690","title":{"rendered":"22 Killed In Road Accident In Cameroon&#8217;s West Region"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>YAOUNDE, Cameroon, June 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; 22 people were killed and several others injured on Sunday, along the Batie-Baham road in Cameroon&#8217;s West Region, after a bus carrying them skidded and collided head-on with a truck, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Nineteen people died at the scene of the accident, and the three others died in hospital, where doctors were trying to save their lives,&#8221; the region&#8217;s governor, Augustine Awa Fonka, told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police said, the death toll will likely increase because there were still dead bodies buried beneath the damaged bus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deadly road accidents are common in Cameroon, often due to poor road conditions, reckless driving and overloading.&#8211; NNN-AGENCIES <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YAOUNDE, Cameroon, June 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; 22 people were killed and several others injured on Sunday, along the Batie-Baham road in Cameroon&#8217;s West Region, after a bus carrying them skidded and collided head-on with a truck, police said. &#8220;Nineteen people died at the scene of the accident, and the three others died in hospital, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":29701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29690"}],"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=29690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}