{"id":32546,"date":"2017-02-14T02:56:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T02:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/dozens-dead-as-taiwan-tour-bus-flips-over-near\/"},"modified":"2017-02-14T02:56:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T02:56:48","slug":"dozens-dead-as-taiwan-tour-bus-flips-over-near","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/dozens-dead-as-taiwan-tour-bus-flips-over-near\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens dead as Taiwan tour bus flips over near Taipei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Bus returning from a cherry blossom day trip overturns on an exit ramp in Taiwanese capital, leaving at least 32 dead.}<\/p>\n<p>At least 32 people have been killed and 12 wounded when a tour bus flipped over on a highway near Taiwan&#8217;s capital, Taipei, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the passengers &#8211; senior citizens returning from a day trip to a popular cherry blossom viewing site &#8211; were trapped underneath the crushed vehicle on an exit ramp in the Nangang district of eastern Taipei, state media said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue personnel used a crane to pry the vehicle open.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It happened on a curve, so the bus flipped and that could be due to excess speed,&#8221; said Tu Bing-cheng, a Taipei city official.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The whole frame of the bus changed shape, got crushed and left no openings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The survivors, some of whom were seriously injured, were sent to hospitals nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are still trying to determine the exact cause of the accident. Investigators said driver fatigue could not be ruled out, the Apple Daily reported. <\/p>\n<p>A bus driver working for the travel agency that sold the tour told a local broadcaster that some colleagues had previously complained about the tiring assignment. <\/p>\n<p>A bus accident in Taiwan last July killed 26 tourists from mainland China, raising concern from officials in Beijing about travel safety.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18201 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fdff7191a0a24abb826de6d98db9c482_18.jpg\" alt=\"The bus passengers were returning from a trip to see cherry blossoms in central Taiwan\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:Al Jazeera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Bus returning from a cherry blossom day trip overturns on an exit ramp in Taiwanese capital, leaving at least 32 dead.} At least 32 people have been killed and 12 wounded when a tour bus flipped over on a highway near Taiwan&#8217;s capital, Taipei, according to officials. Most of the passengers &#8211; senior citizens returning [&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":[101],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-32546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32546","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=32546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32546"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=32546"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=32546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}