{"id":425735,"date":"2024-03-31T09:41:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T06:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=425735"},"modified":"2024-03-31T09:41:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T06:41:35","slug":"bus-plunges-off-a-bridge-in-south-africa-killing-45-people-an-8-year-old-is-the-only-survivor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/bus-plunges-off-a-bridge-in-south-africa-killing-45-people-an-8-year-old-is-the-only-survivor\/","title":{"rendered":"Bus plunges off a bridge in South Africa, killing 45 people. An 8-year-old is the only survivor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE TOWN, South Africa (SONNA) \u2014 A bus carrying worshippers on a long-distance trip from Botswana to an Easter weekend church gathering in South Africa plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass Thursday and burst into flames as it hit the rocky ground below, killing at least 45 people, authorities said. The only survivor was an 8-year-old child who was receiving medical attention for serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The Limpopo provincial government said the bus veered off the Mmamatlakala bridge in northern South Africa 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 trapped inside the vehicle, while others had been thrown from the bus.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened near the town of Mokopane, which is about 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of the South African capital, Pretoria.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Source: AP<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE TOWN, South Africa (SONNA) \u2014 A bus carrying worshippers on a long-distance trip from Botswana to an Easter weekend church gathering in South Africa plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass Thursday and burst into flames as it hit the rocky ground below, killing at least 45 people, authorities said. The only survivor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":425736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-425735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425737,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425735\/revisions\/425737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}