{"id":14904,"date":"2013-06-08T10:27:51","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T06:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=14904"},"modified":"2013-06-08T10:28:06","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T06:28:06","slug":"at-least-42-dead-and-30-injured-after-chinese-bus-burst-into-flames-in-rush-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=14904","title":{"rendered":"At least 42 dead and 30 injured after Chinese bus burst into flames in rush hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ch11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-14898\" alt=\"ch1\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ch11.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ch11.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ch11-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ch11-398x300.jpg 398w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/a>At least 42 people have died and 33 others were injured in a rush hour bus fire in southeast China.<\/p>\n<p>An express bus burst into flames while on an elevated roadway in the prosperous port city of Xiamen, state media reported.<\/p>\n<p>A local fire official who only gave his surname, Sun, said bodies were piled up inside the bus. He said the cause of the fire was being investigated.<\/p>\n<p>Xinhua News Agency quoted a survivor as saying she smelt petrol and then saw a fire spreading rapidly.<\/p>\n<p>An official news site, Xiamen Net, said witnesses heard sounds of explosions after the fire had been burning for about 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s public transit has been expanding rapidly over the past decade, but there are worries that the country is sacrificing safety in its rush to roll out modern services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 42 people have died and 33 others were injured in a rush hour&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}