{"id":4217,"date":"2015-04-09T18:37:58","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T18:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=4217"},"modified":"2015-04-09T18:37:58","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T18:37:58","slug":"25-people-killed-after-bus-slams-into-tree-in-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/25-people-killed-after-bus-slams-into-tree-in-bangladesh\/","title":{"rendered":"25 people killed after bus slams into tree in Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At least 25 people were killed and many more injured when a packed bus slammed into a tree in Bangladesh early on Thursday.<br \/>\nPolice said the driver, who was among the dead, appeared to have lost control of the bus on the Barisal-Dhaka highway during an overnight journey.<br \/>\n\u201cIn all 22 people died on the spot and later three more died in the hospital,\u201d local police chief Nazmul Islam told AFP, adding that 19 of the fifty people on board were injured, some critically.<br \/>\nBangladesh has one of the world\u2019s highest death rates from road accidents, mainly due to the poor state of roads and vehicles and a failure to comply with traffic regulations.<\/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\/25-people-killed-after-bus-slams-into-tree-in-bangladesh\/\" 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 25 people were killed and many more injured when a packed bus slammed into a tree in Bangladesh early on Thursday. Police said the driver, who was among the dead, appeared to have lost control of the bus on the Barisal-Dhaka highway during an overnight journey. \u201cIn all 22 people died on the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217"}],"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=4217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4218,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217\/revisions\/4218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}