{"id":409653,"date":"2018-03-14T07:30:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T07:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=409653"},"modified":"2018-03-14T07:30:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T07:30:28","slug":"dozens-students-die-bus-falls-off-cliff-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=409653","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of students die as bus falls off cliff in Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Thirty-eight people have died in Ethiopia after the bus they were travelling in plunged off a cliff, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>The accident happened in Legambo district in the country&#8217;s Amhara region, north of the capital Addis Ababa.<\/p>\n<p>Local officials have confirmed 28 men and 10 women were killed.<\/p>\n<p>Ten passengers have survived but suffered &#8220;serious and minor injuries&#8221;, the Fana broadcaster reported.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the victims of Monday&#8217;s accident were &#8220;students of higher learning institutions&#8221;, it added.<\/p>\n<p>Independent news site Addis Standard reports that the bus fell five metres.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia, Africa&#8217;s fastest-growing economy, has expanded and renovated its road network in recent years. Many people rely on buses for long-distance travel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-eight people have died in Ethiopia after the bus they were travelling in plunged off a cliff, officials say. The accident happened in Legambo district in the country&#8217;s Amhara region, north of the capital Addis Ababa. Local officials have confirmed 28 men and 10 women were killed. Ten passengers have survived but suffered &#8220;serious and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":409654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[17867,202],"class_list":["post-409653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-bus-accident","tag-ethiopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409653","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=409653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/409654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}