{"id":79850,"date":"2018-11-16T22:07:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T17:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=79850"},"modified":"2018-11-16T22:07:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T17:07:40","slug":"passengers-in-zimbabwe-caught-in-bus-fire-40-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=79850","title":{"rendered":"Passengers in Zimbabwe caught in bus fire; 40 killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"template__main  clearfix    modifier--open        px-1  modifier--widedefault  modifier--blockquote-center-narrow  \">\n<div class=\"story__content          pt-1  mt-1\">\n<p>Zimbabwe, Nov 16 (TNS): Fire swept through a passenger bus in Zimbabwe, killing more than 40 people and injuring at least 20, some of whom suffered severe burns, authorities said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>A photograph posted on Twitter by the Zimbabwe Red Cross shows the remains of the bus that was completely incinerated late Thursday. The Red Cross said its teams responded to a \u201chorrific accident\u201d involving a bus heading to neighbouring South Africa at around midnight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCombustible material was allowed onto the bus, thus causing a conflagration which entrapped, scalded and consumed innocent passengers,\u201d President Emmerson Mnangagwa said in a condolence message.<\/p>\n<p>Mnangagwa said the government should \u201ctake appropriate measures which comprehensively deal with this growing menace on our roads&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The accident happened in Gwanda district, about 550 kilometres south of Harare, Zimbabwe&#8217;s capital.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokeswoman Charity Charamba confirmed a death toll of more than 40.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a collision between two buses in Zimbabwe killed 50 people and injured about 80.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe, Nov 16 (TNS): Fire swept through a passenger bus in Zimbabwe, killing more than 40 people and injuring at least 20, some of whom suffered severe burns, authorities said on Friday. A photograph posted on Twitter by the Zimbabwe Red Cross shows the remains of the bus that was completely incinerated late Thursday. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79853,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79850\/revisions\/79853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}