{"id":29416,"date":"2013-08-21T20:53:21","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T16:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=29416"},"modified":"2013-08-21T20:53:21","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T16:53:21","slug":"packed-bus-on-way-back-from-church-outing-plunges-into-river-in-indonesia-killing-18-worshippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=29416","title":{"rendered":"Packed bus on way back from church outing plunges into river in Indonesia, killing 18 worshippers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bus-plunges-into-river-in-Indonesia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29414\" alt=\"bus plunges into river in Indonesia\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bus-plunges-into-river-in-Indonesia.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bus-plunges-into-river-in-Indonesia.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bus-plunges-into-river-in-Indonesia-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bus-plunges-into-river-in-Indonesia-467x300.jpg 467w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>A car and a packed church bus returning from an outing have collided and plunged into a river in Indonesia&#8217;s West Java province, killing at least 18 people and injuring more than a dozen others, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The bus, carrying about 60 people from a church in northern Jakarta, was returning from a trip to the hilly resort town of Puncak.<\/p>\n<p>Local traffic police chief Captain Muhammad Chaniago said its brakes apparently malfunctioned.<\/p>\n<p>He said the bus hit a small car and crashed through the wall of a roadside building before both vehicles fell up to 26ft into the river in Cisarua.<\/p>\n<p>At least 18 people were confirmed dead and 40 injured, said the local disaster management agency.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the dead were killed instantly, and those with injuries were rushed to two nearby hospitals, Chaniago said.<\/p>\n<p>Road accidents are common in Indonesia due to poor safety standards and infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A car and a packed church bus returning from an outing have collided and plunged&#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":[221,224,137],"tags":[2065,2064],"class_list":["post-29416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-news","category-world","tag-killing-18-worshippers","tag-packed-bus-on-way-back-from-church-outing-plunges-into-river-in-indonesia","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29416","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=29416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}