{"id":22248,"date":"2013-07-06T21:57:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T17:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=22248"},"modified":"2013-07-06T21:57:57","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T17:57:57","slug":"train-in-central-pakistan-hits-rickshaw-kills-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=22248","title":{"rendered":"Train in Central Pakistan Hits Rickshaw, Kills 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/pakistan.-train.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22246\" alt=\"pakistan. train\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/pakistan.-train.jpg\" width=\"490\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/pakistan.-train.jpg 490w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/pakistan.-train-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a>A police officer says a train traveling through central Pakistan hit an overloaded rickshaw at an unmanned railway crossing, killing 12 people.<\/p>\n<p>Senior police officer Himayun Tarar said the crash Saturday happened near Khanpur village in Shaikhupura district of Punjab province. Tarar said the rickshaw driver didn&#8217;t notice the train and tried to cross the tracks.<\/p>\n<p>Tarar said two women and two children were among the dead, while two others who survived the collision were in critical condition at a local hospital. The officer said many of the victims died before rescue workers reached the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Such crashes routinely occur in Pakistan, as the country has hundreds of unmanned rail crossings and motorists driving overloaded vehicles routinely speed through without looking for oncoming trains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A police officer says a train traveling through central Pakistan hit an overloaded rickshaw at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22248","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}