{"id":69706,"date":"2014-02-17T16:27:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T12:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=69706"},"modified":"2014-02-17T16:27:53","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T12:27:53","slug":"bus-in-india-plunges-into-gorge-killing-14-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=69706","title":{"rendered":"Bus in India plunges into gorge, killing 14 passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bus traveling on a dangerous highway in Indian-administered Kashmir Sunday plunged off the road, killing 14 passengers and injuring 28 others, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The overloaded bus hurtled down a 300-foot-deep gorge after the driver lost control of the vehicle, a senior government official said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fourteen passengers died on the spot, and 28 others were wounded, some of them critically,&#8221; Shant Manu, divisional commissioner of the Jammu and Kashmir district, told CNN.<\/p>\n<p>He said contingents of the Indian army and police were deployed immediately to rescue passengers.<\/p>\n<p>The bus was completely destroyed in the accident.<\/p>\n<p>Accidents on the strategic, serpentine highway connecting the Muslim-majority Kashmir to rest of the country are common because of speeding and the treacherous nature of the road.<\/p>\n<p>The highway is often blocked by snow and landslides. The road was closed to traffic several times this winter, which has had multiple heavy snowfalls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bus traveling on a dangerous highway in Indian-administered Kashmir Sunday plunged off the road,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":69705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69706","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=69706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}