{"id":10225,"date":"2019-07-08T11:49:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T07:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=10225"},"modified":"2019-07-08T11:49:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T07:49:07","slug":"bus-crash-on-highway-to-indias-taj-mahal-kills-28-injures-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2019\/07\/08\/bus-crash-on-highway-to-indias-taj-mahal-kills-28-injures-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Bus crash on highway to India&#8217;s Taj Mahal kills 28, injures 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bus on Monday skidded off an expressway to India&#8217;s northern city of Agra, home of the famed monument to love, the Taj Mahal, and fell into a drain, killing 28 people, after its driver apparently dozed off at the wheel, Reuters has quoted police as saying.<\/p>\n<p>More than 40 people were on board the bus travelling from New Delhi, the capital, when it went off the six-lane, 165-km (103-mile) -long highway, the site of several accidents, and a police official said 18 passengers were injured.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The cause of the accident is a matter of investigation, but initially it seems that the driver of the bus fell asleep,&#8221; said Agra police superintendent Bablu Kumar.<\/p>\n<p>Indian roads are among the world&#8217;s deadliest, with 464,910 accidents in 2017 that killed nearly 148,000 people, the latest government data shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bus on Monday skidded off an expressway to India&#8217;s northern city of Agra, home of the famed monument to love, the Taj Mahal, and fell into a drain, killing 28 people, after its driver apparently dozed off at the wheel, Reuters has quoted police as saying. More than 40 people were on board the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10227,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10225\/revisions\/10227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}