{"id":106839,"date":"2019-12-17T09:46:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T07:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=106839"},"modified":"2019-12-17T09:46:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T07:46:05","slug":"foreigners-nationals-stranded-following-deadly-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/12\/17\/foreigners-nationals-stranded-following-deadly-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreigners nationals stranded following deadly accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people were killed on the N11, Kranspoort Pass and 22 seriously injured when the bus they were travelling in overturned.<br \/>\nThe bus was travelling from Durban to Zimbabwe when the incident occurred on December 16.<\/p>\n<p>Those who were not injured, were transported with their belongings to the Middelburg Police Station.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_106840\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106840\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-106840\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2019\/12\/zimac-2-Copy-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2019\/12\/zimac-2-Copy-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2019\/12\/zimac-2-Copy-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-106840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At least 22 of the passengers were transported to the hospital.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The distressed men and women spent the night outside the police station. They told\u00a0<b>www.mobserver.co.za\u00a0<\/b>that they are in talks with the owner of a bus service so that they can leave for Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not concerned about food, we just want transportation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They added that they lost their money during the accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zimbabwean Nationals who were involved in an accident yesterday are stranded at the Middelburg Police Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":106841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Tiisetso Malunga","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[22426,22424,10010,12898,10333,22425],"class_list":["post-106839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-22-zimbabweans-injured-after-accident","tag-bus-overturns-in-kranspoort-pass","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-trusted-news","tag-zimbabwean-nationals-stranded-after-bus-accident"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["22 zimbabweans injured after accident","bus overturns in kranspoort pass","local news","middelburg news","trusted news","Zimbabwean nationals stranded after bus accident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}