{"id":25960,"date":"2018-12-18T03:23:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T03:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25960"},"modified":"2018-12-18T03:23:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T03:23:11","slug":"three-rail-workers-detained-after-turkish-rail-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25960","title":{"rendered":"Three rail workers detained after Turkish rail crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1422251\/middle-east\" readability=\"37\">\n<p>\nANKARA: A Turkish court on Monday placed three railway workers in pre-trial detention after they were accused of negligence leading to last week\u2019s fatal rail crash in Ankara.<br \/>Nine people were killed and almost 90 injured after a high-speed train crashed into a locomotive.<br \/>Those detained \u2014 a signalman, a switchman and a controller working for the state railway authority \u2014 face charges of reckless manslaughter and causing injury, the Anadolu state news agency reported.<br \/>Following the accident Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed those responsible would be held to account.<br \/>Ankara Governor Vasip Sahin said the accident happened after the early morning high-speed train with some 200 people aboard and traveling to the central province of Konya hit a locomotive checking rails on the same route.<br \/>Turkey has in recent years sought to modernize its railways network following a string of fatal accidents.<br \/>July saw 24 people killed when passenger train left the track in northwestern Turkey.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA: A Turkish court on Monday placed three railway workers in pre-trial detention after they were accused of negligence leading to last week\u2019s fatal rail crash in Ankara.Nine people were killed and almost 90 injured after a high-speed train crashed into a locomotive.Those detained \u2014 a signalman, a switchman and a controller working for the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}