{"id":53236,"date":"2014-10-03T07:06:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T07:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=53236"},"modified":"2014-10-03T07:22:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T07:22:25","slug":"12-dead-in-gory-vip-bus-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=53236","title":{"rendered":"12 dead in gory VIP bus accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>12 people have died in a gory accident which occurred at Ankaase, near Osino in the Eastern Region in the early hours of Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The accident occurred when two VIP passenger buses collided head on around 1: 30 am.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;MQT48NBNQbmOHCSxq9o3pg8AUECzrUSY&#8221;]One of the VIP buses which was travelling from Kumasi to Accra in an attempt to overtake a stationary cargo truck, collided with the bus traveling from Accra to Kumasi.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the incident to <strong>Citi News,<\/strong> Corporal Vincent Appiah of the Anyinam Police Station disclosed that 11 persons died on the spot while another passenger died while being conveyed to the hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">Several others are said to be in critical condition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/osamidan\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @osamidan<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.crea   teElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 people have died in a gory accident which occurred at Ankaase, near Osino in the Eastern Region in the early hours of Friday. The accident occurred when two VIP passenger buses collided head on around 1: 30 am. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;MQT48NBNQbmOHCSxq9o3pg8AUECzrUSY&#8221;]One of the VIP buses which was travelling from Kumasi to Accra in an attempt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":53237,"comment_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-53236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53236","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=53236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}