{"id":1454,"date":"2014-03-20T10:59:54","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T10:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=1454"},"modified":"2014-03-20T10:59:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T10:59:54","slug":"nine-killed-as-train-hits-bus-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/nine-killed-as-train-hits-bus-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine killed as train hits bus in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Turkey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1455\" alt=\"Turkey\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Turkey-300x203.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Turkey-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Turkey.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>At least nine people were killed and five injured on Thursday when a train crashed into a bus carrying factory workers in Turkey&#8217;s southern city of Mersin, local news agencies reported.<br \/>\nThe minibus was carrying the workers to an industrial zone on the edge of the city when it was hit on a railway crossing by a commuter train travelling between Mersin and the neighbouring province of Adana.<br \/>\nVideo footage on the Dogan News Agency website showed the crushed minibus on the side of the tracks and medics trying to reach the injured.<br \/>\nState broadcaster TRT said 10 people were killed.<br \/>\nIn 2004, an express train derailed while travelling from Istanbul to the Turkish capital of Ankara, killing 36 people and injuring dozens in one of the country&#8217;s worst rail disasters.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/nine-killed-as-train-hits-bus-in-turkey\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least nine people were killed and five injured on Thursday when a train crashed into a bus carrying factory workers in Turkey&#8217;s southern city of Mersin, local news agencies reported. The minibus was carrying the workers to an industrial zone on the edge of the city when it was hit on a railway crossing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1456,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions\/1456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}