{"id":59896,"date":"2020-01-27T13:12:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T05:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59896"},"modified":"2020-01-27T13:12:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T05:12:59","slug":"death-toll-in-peru-tanker-explosion-rises-to-13-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59896","title":{"rendered":"Death toll in Peru tanker explosion rises to 13: ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/media.malaymail.com\/uploads\/articles\/2020\/2020-01\/peruexplosionAFP_20200126.jpg\" alt=\"Forensic police inspect the wreckage of a gas tanker that exploded in Lima, on January 23, 2020. \u2014 AFP pic\"\/><figcaption>Forensic police inspect the wreckage of a gas tanker that exploded in Lima<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>LIMA, Jan 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The death toll in the explosion of a gas tanker in Lima has risen to 13 after the overnight deaths of five people hospitalised with severe burns, Peru&#8217;s Health Ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dead included several young children and a 40-year-old man from Venezuela, the ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nearly 50 people were injured, many seriously, when a tanker truck carrying 10,000 litres of liquefied gas exploded early Thursday, igniting a major fire that destroyed several houses and vehicles in the capital&#8217;s Villa El Salvador district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investigators believe the explosion was caused when a fuel hose became detached as the tanker truck passed over a speed bump as it approached an intersection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The driver, initially reported to have died in the crash, in fact survived. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIMA, Jan 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The death toll in the explosion of a gas tanker in Lima has risen to 13 after the overnight deaths of five people hospitalised with severe burns, Peru&#8217;s Health Ministry said. The dead included several young children and a 40-year-old man from Venezuela, the ministry said. Nearly 50 people were [&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\/59896"}],"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=59896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}