{"id":39787,"date":"2024-12-31T01:50:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T22:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=39787"},"modified":"2024-12-31T02:00:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T23:00:16","slug":"71-people-killed-in-road-accident-in-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/31\/71-people-killed-in-road-accident-in-ethiopia\/","title":{"rendered":"71 People Killed in Road Accident in Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Authorities in the Sidama region of southern Ethiopia have reported that at least 60 people died when a truck carrying passengers fell into a river.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Wosenele Simion, a spokesperson for the Sidama regional government, said on Monday that at least 71 people had died, including 68 men and three women.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He told Reuters that &#8220;five people are in critical condition and receiving treatment at Buna General Hospital.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Wosenele explained that the truck fell into a river, adding that the road is filled with many curves.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He also mentioned that some of the passengers were returning from a wedding, and several families lost many members. Local traffic police indicated that the truck was overloaded, which likely contributed to the accident.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The regional communications office stated in a late-night release on Sunday that the incident occurred in the Buna area, according to Reuters.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It added, without further details: &#8220;The survivors are now receiving treatment at Buna General Hospital.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Ethiopian state-run media reported that the passengers were on their way to a wedding when the accident occurred.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In 2018, at least 38 people, mostly students, were killed when a bus fell into a ravine in northern mountainous Ethiopia.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in the Sidama region of southern Ethiopia have reported that at least 60 people died when a truck carrying passengers fell into a river. Wosenele Simion, a spokesperson for the Sidama regional government, said on Monday that at least 71 people had died, including 68 men and three women. He told Reuters that &#8220;five &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39788,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39787\/revisions\/39788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}