{"id":333674,"date":"2017-07-03T13:43:54","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T13:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=333674"},"modified":"2017-07-03T13:43:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T13:43:54","slug":"several-people-killed-in-germany-tour-bus-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=333674","title":{"rendered":"Several people killed in Germany tour bus fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people were killed when a coach burst into flames after colliding with a truck on a motorway in the German state of Bavaria on Monday, the German government said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately numerous people &#8211; a tour group from (the eastern German state of) Saxony &#8211; lost their lives in this burning bus,&#8221; government spokesman Steffen Seibert told a news conference.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_333680\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-333680\" style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/busfire2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-333680\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/busfire2.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters are seen at the site where a coach burst into flames after colliding with a lorry on a motorway near Muenchberg, Germany in this still image taken from video on July 3, 2017. REUTERS\/News 5\" width=\"780\" height=\"460\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-333680\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters are seen at the site where a coach burst into flames after colliding with a lorry on a motorway near Muenchberg, Germany in this still image taken from video on July 3, 2017. REUTERS\/News 5<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"slider slider-module slick-initialized slick-slider\"><\/div>\n<p>A local newspaper, Frankenpost, said that 17 people had been killed, without identifying its source for the information.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_333679\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-333679\" style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/busfire1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-333679\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/busfire1.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters are seen at the site where a coach burst into flames after colliding with a lorry on a motorway near Muenchberg, Germany in this still image taken from video on July 3, 2017. REUTERS\/News 5.\" width=\"780\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-333679\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters are seen at the site where a coach burst into flames after colliding with a lorry on a motorway near Muenchberg, Germany in this still image taken from video on July 3, 2017. REUTERS\/News 5.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Police said on Twitter that &#8220;a number of people&#8221; had died with 31 people injured, some of them seriously.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_333678\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-333678\" style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/busfire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-333678\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/busfire.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters are seen at the site where a coach burst into flames after colliding with a lorry on a motorway near Muenchberg, Germany in this still image taken from video on July 3, 2017. REUTERS\/News 5\" width=\"780\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-333678\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters are seen at the site where a coach burst into flames after colliding with a lorry on a motorway near Muenchberg, Germany in this still image taken from video on July 3, 2017. REUTERS\/News 5<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Police said there had been 48 people on the bus at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_333681\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-333681\" style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/busfire3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-333681\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/busfire3.jpg\" alt=\"Helicopters at the site where a coach burst into flames after colliding with a lorry on a motorway near Muenchberg, Germany, July 3, 2017.    REUTERS\/News 5.\" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-333681\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Helicopters at the site where a coach burst into flames after colliding with a lorry on a motorway near Muenchberg, Germany, July 3, 2017. REUTERS\/News 5.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people were killed when a coach burst into flames after colliding with a truck on a motorway in the German state of Bavaria on Monday, the German government said. &#8220;Unfortunately numerous people &#8211; a tour group from (the eastern German state of) Saxony &#8211; lost their lives in this burning bus,&#8221; government spokesman Steffen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=333674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}