{"id":29645,"date":"2016-10-23T02:59:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T02:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/death-toll-in-cameroon-train-crash-rises-to-70\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T02:58:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T02:58:58","slug":"death-toll-in-cameroon-train-crash-rises-to-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/death-toll-in-cameroon-train-crash-rises-to-70\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll in Cameroon train crash rises to 70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The number of people killed in a train crash in Cameroon on Friday has risen to 70, with another 600 injured.}<\/p>\n<p>The train was travelling between the country&#8217;s mains cities, Douala and Yaounde, when it came off the tracks.<\/p>\n<p>The train was overcrowded because a bridge on the road connecting the two cities had collapsed after heavy rain.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses say carriages were added to accommodate extra passengers. An investigation into the cause of the derailment is under way.<\/p>\n<p>President Paul Biya, who is abroad, wrote on his official Facebook page: &#8220;I instructed the government to provide full assistance to the survivors.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The number of people killed in a train crash in Cameroon on Friday has risen to 70, with another 600 injured.} The train was travelling between the country&#8217;s mains cities, Douala and Yaounde, when it came off the tracks. The train was overcrowded because a bridge on the road connecting the two cities had collapsed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-29645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29645"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=29645"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=29645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}