{"id":29974,"date":"2019-01-21T05:22:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T05:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29974"},"modified":"2019-01-21T05:22:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T05:22:44","slug":"bolivia-bus-plunges-into-ravine-killing-at-least-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29974","title":{"rendered":"Bolivia: Bus plunges into ravine, killing at least 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"73.5074626866\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">At least 13 people have been killed in southern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/bolivia.html\">Bolivia<\/a> after a bus rolled over on a mountain road before tumbling over some 100 metres into a ravine, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><span>Another 26 people were injured in Sunday&#8217;s crash, which happened in Cieneguillas, a town in the Tarija region south of the capital city of La Paz, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Local media said four of the dead were part of a football delegation from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/argentina.html\">Argentina<\/a> that was in Bolivia to participate in a festival in the Sucre region.<\/p>\n<p>The accident came a day after a highway crash in another part of southern Bolivia in which two buses collided head-on, killing at least 22 people and injuring 37 others.<\/p>\n<p>Deadly bus crashes are common in Bolivia&#8217;s highlands where narrow highways often wind next to steep precipices and are known to be treacherous.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 13 people have been killed in southern Bolivia after a bus rolled over on a mountain road before tumbling over some 100 metres into a ravine, according to authorities. Another 26 people were injured in Sunday&#8217;s crash, which happened in Cieneguillas, a town in the Tarija region south of the capital city of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":29975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29974","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\/29974","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=29974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}