{"id":25195,"date":"2024-03-28T19:02:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T23:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/a-bus-plunges-off-a-bridge-in-south-africa-killing-45-people-8-year-old-child-is-only-survivor\/28\/03\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-03-28T19:02:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T23:02:57","slug":"a-bus-plunges-off-a-bridge-in-south-africa-killing-45-people-8-year-old-child-is-only-survivor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/a-bus-plunges-off-a-bridge-in-south-africa-killing-45-people-8-year-old-child-is-only-survivor\/28\/03\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"A bus plunges off a bridge in South Africa, killing 45 people. 8-year-old child is only survivor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) \u2014 A bus carrying worshippers headed to an Easter festival plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass and burst into flames in South Africa Thursday, killing at least 45 people, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The only survivor of the crash was an 8-year-old child, who was receiving medical attention, according to authorities in the northern province of Limpopo.<\/p>\n<p>The Limpopo provincial government said the bus veered off the Mmamatlakala bridge and plunged 50 meters (164 feet) into a ravine before busting into flames.<\/p>\n<p>Search operations were ongoing, the provincial government said, but many bodies were burned beyond recognition and still trapped inside the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said they believe the bus was traveling from the neighboring country of Botswana to the town of Moria, which hosts a popular Easter pilgrimage.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP Africa news: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/africa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/africa;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/africa<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/bus-plunges-off-bridge-south-224024344.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) &mdash; A bus carrying worshippers headed to an Easter festival plunged off a bridge on a mountain<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/a-bus-plunges-off-a-bridge-in-south-africa-killing-45-people-8-year-old-child-is-only-survivor\/28\/03\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}