{"id":85460,"date":"2020-07-29T12:33:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T04:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=85460"},"modified":"2020-07-29T12:33:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T04:33:44","slug":"22-killed-in-mali-minibus-truck-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=85460","title":{"rendered":"22 killed in Mali minibus-truck accident"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/22-killed-in-Mali-minibus-accident.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/22-killed-in-Mali-minibus-accident.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BAMAKO, July 29 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Twenty-two people were killed and 21 were wounded in southern Mali on Tuesday when a minibus collided with a dump truck, the transport ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The accident occurred around 9 am on a national highway linking the town of Kangaba near the border with Guinea to Bancoumana farther north in the West African country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ministry said in a statement that 19 people were killed at the site of the crash, according to a provisional tally, and that seven of the wounded passengers were badly injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The injured were taken to a hospital in the capital Bamako.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe reasons behind the accident are excessive speed and non-respect of road rules,\u201d the ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Road accidents are a regular occurrence in Mali, where the poor state of the motorways has been a source of social tension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twenty people were killed on May 20 after a minibus and lorry collided in the south of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Travelling by road is still the principal means of transport for people and goods in the landlocked Sahel nation of some 20 million people. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAMAKO, July 29 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Twenty-two people were killed and 21 were wounded in southern Mali on Tuesday when a minibus collided with a dump truck, the transport ministry said. The accident occurred around 9 am on a national highway linking the town of Kangaba near the border with Guinea to Bancoumana farther north in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":85462,"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\/85460"}],"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=85460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}