{"id":12468,"date":"2024-03-28T19:46:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T19:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/28\/45-people-killed-in-bus-crash-in-south-africa-child-8-the-sole-survivor\/"},"modified":"2024-03-28T19:46:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T19:46:06","slug":"45-people-killed-in-bus-crash-in-south-africa-child-8-the-sole-survivor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/28\/45-people-killed-in-bus-crash-in-south-africa-child-8-the-sole-survivor\/","title":{"rendered":"45 people killed in bus crash in South Africa \u2013 child, 8, the sole survivor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/e3.365dm.com\/24\/03\/70x70\/skynews-bus-crash-south-africa_6503669.jpg?20240328192409&amp;fit=70,70&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"45 people killed in bus crash in South Africa \u2013 child, 8, the sole survivor\" title=\"45 people killed in bus crash in South Africa \u2013 child, 8, the sole survivor\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-component-name=\"sdc-article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>A bus crash in South Africa has killed 45 people. <\/p>\n<p>The bus had a total of 46 people on board, including the driver. Only one child, an eight-year-old, survived the accident and is being treated in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the transport ministry said the driver lost control, and the bus fell onto a rocky surface, some 50m under a bridge and caught fire, near Mamatlakala in the northeast province of Limpopo.<\/p>\n<p>The passenger bus was transporting people from Botswana, who were reportedly travelling to Moria in Limpopo for an Easter weekend church service.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue operations continued until the late hours of Thursday evening. Some bodies were burned beyond recognition and others were trapped inside the debris.<\/p>\n<p><em>This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Please refresh the page for the fullest version.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You can receive breaking news alerts on a smartphone or tablet via the <a href=\"https:\/\/qrcode.skynews.com\/skynews\/appdownload\"><strong>Sky News app<\/strong><\/a>. You can also follow <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SkyNews\"><strong>@SkyNews on X<\/strong><\/a> or subscribe to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/skynews\"><strong>YouTube channel<\/strong><\/a> to keep up with the latest news. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bus crash in South Africa has killed 45 people. The bus had a total of 46 people on board, including the driver. Only one child, an eight-year-old, survived the accident and is being treated in hospital. In a statement, the transport ministry said the driver lost control, and the bus fell onto a rocky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/24\/03\/70x70\/skynews-bus-crash-south-africa_6503669.jpg?20240328192409","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[460,4841,11673,21,1177,124,17835,6967,5403],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12470,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12468\/revisions\/12470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}