{"id":56292,"date":"2019-12-25T15:32:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T07:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=56292"},"modified":"2019-12-25T15:44:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T07:44:06","slug":"update-death-toll-of-indonesian-bus-accident-rises-to-28-with-13-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=56292","title":{"rendered":"Update: Death Toll Of Indonesian Bus Accident Rises To 28 With 13 Missing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>JAKARTA, Dec 25 (NNN-ANTARA) &#8211; The death toll of a fatal bus accident in Indonesia&#8217;s South Sumatra province, two days ago, rose to at least 28, with 13 others still missing, a senior official of a search and rescue office said today (Wednesday).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thirteen others are treated in nearby Basemah Hospital, in Pagaralam district, for serious wounds, Yusuf Latief, head of the National Search and Rescue Office&#8217;s Communications for Media Section said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A search and rescue mission for the missing passengers is underway, involving about 60 rescuers, who are focusing on the bus wreckage and areas along the river, Latief said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rescuers are also diving into some parts of the river to look for the victims, Latief added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, a senior official of the Disaster Management Agency in the district, Hadie Wijaya, confirmed that the bus was carrying 54 people, before it plunged into the river, in a steep ravine in Perahu Dipo village, on Monday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There are still bodies trapped inside the wreckage. Our personnel are also searching for the missing victims along the river,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, unfavourable weather condition is hampering the mission in the river, whose water surface may rise at any time, according to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, Wijaya pointed out that scores of passengers were likely swept by the strong current during the mishap.&#8211; NNN-ANTARA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAKARTA, Dec 25 (NNN-ANTARA) &#8211; The death toll of a fatal bus accident in Indonesia&#8217;s South Sumatra province, two days ago, rose to at least 28, with 13 others still missing, a senior official of a search and rescue office said today (Wednesday). Thirteen others are treated in nearby Basemah Hospital, in Pagaralam district, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":56295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,286,198,291],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56292"}],"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=56292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}