{"id":7069,"date":"2022-04-15T11:29:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T11:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=7069"},"modified":"2022-04-15T11:29:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T11:29:42","slug":"black-friday-35-churchgoers-killed-in-easter-road-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=7069","title":{"rendered":"Black Friday: 35 Churchgoers Killed In Easter Road Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">At least 35 people died and 71 were injured in Zimbabwe when a bus carrying churchgoers to an Easter gathering veered off the road and landed in a gorge, police said Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The bus was carrying members of a local Zion Christian Church who were travelling to an Easter meeting in the South-Eastern town of Chipinge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI can confirm an accident which occurred last night. So far, the death toll is 35 and the number of injured is 71,\u201d police spokesman Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi told AFP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIndications suggest that the bus was overloaded,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Buses in Zimbabwe typically have an average capacity of 60 to 75 passengers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAs church people they should lead by example but instead they were travelling at night which we always discourage,\u201d Nyathi said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Road accidents are common in Zimbabwe during public holidays, when the roads are often busier.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Many roads are pock marked with crater-like potholes, which also contributes to accidents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">AFP<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 35 people died and 71 were injured in Zimbabwe when a bus carrying churchgoers to an Easter gathering veered off the road and landed in a gorge, police said Friday. The bus was carrying members of a local Zion Christian Church who were travelling to an Easter meeting in the South-Eastern town of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4227,4228,760,4229,4149],"class_list":["post-7069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-black-friday","tag-churchgoers","tag-easter","tag-killed","tag-road-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7071,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7069\/revisions\/7071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}