{"id":970,"date":"2013-08-21T10:54:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T10:54:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-05-25T06:50:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T06:50:47","slug":"contentsixteen-dead-indonesia-bus-plunges-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=970","title":{"rendered":"Sixteen Dead as Indonesia Bus Plunges into River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sixteen people were killed and dozens injured Wednesday when a bus plunged into a river as it returned from a church outing on Indonesia&#8217;s main island of Java, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The bus was carrying 60 passengers from a Jakarta church back to the capital after a visit to a hill resort when the accident happened in Cisarua, West Java province, local police spokesman Martinus Sitompul told Agence France Presse.<\/p>\n<p>It collided with a pick-up truck then crashed into a food stall before falling up to eight meters (26 feet) into the river.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sixteen people died, 32 people were seriously injured, and 10 others were lightly injured,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We suspect the brakes malfunctioned but that&#8217;s still being investigated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fatal accidents are common on Indonesia&#8217;s poorly maintained roads, especially on densely populated Java island.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Agence France Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixteen people were killed and dozens injured Wednesday when a bus plunged into a river as it returned from a church outing on Indonesia&#8217;s main island of Java, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The bus was carrying 60 passengers from a Jakarta church back to the capital after a visit to a hill resort when the accident happened in Cisarua, West Java province, local police spokesman Martinus Sitompul told Agence France Presse.<\/p>\n<p>It collided with a pick-up truck then crashed into a food stall before falling up to eight meters (26 feet) into the river.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":8915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}