{"id":58542,"date":"2020-01-15T09:25:32","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T01:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58542"},"modified":"2020-01-15T09:25:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T01:25:34","slug":"ghana-thirty-four-killed-in-two-bus-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58542","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Thirty-four killed in  two-bus crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/gana.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/gana.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>ACCRA, Jan 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211;\u2013 Thirty-four people died when two buses collided in central Ghana, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police and the fire brigade said the accident occurred early Tuesday in the<br>town of Dompoase, about 200 kilometres from the Ghanaian capital<br>Accra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSeveral people sustained injuries and have been rushed to the hospital.<br>Twenty-nine died on the spot while five others died at the hospital,\u201d Fire<br>service spokesman Abdul Hudu Wasiu said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The victims included 20 men, 11 women and three children, one of whom was only a year old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Around 40 survivors are being treated in hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were 13,877 road accidents in Ghana last year, resulting in 2,284<br>deaths and 14,397 injuries, according to official statistics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are mainly caused by human error or due to bad and often unlit roads<br>and malfunctioning traffic lights. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACCRA, Jan 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211;\u2013 Thirty-four people died when two buses collided in central Ghana, officials said. Police and the fire brigade said the accident occurred early Tuesday in thetown of Dompoase, about 200 kilometres from the Ghanaian capitalAccra. \u201cSeveral people sustained injuries and have been rushed to the hospital.Twenty-nine died on the spot while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"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\/58542"}],"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=58542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}