{"id":26283,"date":"2024-04-11T04:07:32","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T08:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/a-bus-carrying-pilgrims-crashes-in-southwest-pakistan-killing-17-people-and-injuring-16\/11\/04\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-04-11T04:07:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T08:07:32","slug":"a-bus-carrying-pilgrims-crashes-in-southwest-pakistan-killing-17-people-and-injuring-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/a-bus-carrying-pilgrims-crashes-in-southwest-pakistan-killing-17-people-and-injuring-16\/11\/04\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"A bus carrying pilgrims crashes in southwest Pakistan, killing 17 people and injuring 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) \u2014 A bus carrying pilgrims crashed into a deep ditch in southwest Pakistan, killing 17 people and injuring 16 others, officials said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>They were travelling to a revered religious site in Baluchistan late Wednesday, the first day of Eid Al-Fitr celebrations and a public holiday in Pakistan, said a spokesperson for the provincial government, Shahid Rind.<\/p>\n<p>The driver lost control of the bus in Las Bela district, just 25 kilometers from the shrine the pilgrims were heading to.<\/p>\n<p>Those in a serious condition, some 15 people, were shifted to a hospital in neighboring Sindh province. There were 33 people on the bus, including the driver.<\/p>\n<p>Baluchistan Chief Minister Mir Sarfraz Bugti expressed his regret over the crash.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/bus-carrying-pilgrims-crashes-southwest-072613665.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) &mdash; A bus carrying pilgrims crashed into a deep ditch in southwest Pakistan, killing 17 people and injuring 16<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/a-bus-carrying-pilgrims-crashes-in-southwest-pakistan-killing-17-people-and-injuring-16\/11\/04\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26286,"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\/26283"}],"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=26283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}