{"id":2816,"date":"2016-11-07T19:51:25","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T19:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2016\/11\/07\/deadly-train-crash-in-cameroon\/"},"modified":"2016-11-07T19:51:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T19:51:25","slug":"deadly-train-crash-in-cameroon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/deadly-train-crash-in-cameroon\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly Train Crash in Cameroon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 1.25em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Light', Helvetica, 'Droid Sans', Arial, 'Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px\" class=\"p1 disableActiveState jsHasHighlightListener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/QLlUh5r.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"350\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 1.25em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Light', Helvetica, 'Droid Sans', Arial, 'Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px\" class=\"p1 disableActiveState jsHasHighlightListener\">On the morning of October\u00c2\u00a021, 2016, a train traveling to the port city of Douala, Cameroon, derailed near the town of Eseka, about 120\u00c2\u00a0kilometers (approx. 75\u00c2\u00a0mi.) from Yaound\u00c3\u00a9, the capital. Over 600 people were injured in the crash, and over 70 were killed.<\/p>\n<p id=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 1.25em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Light', Helvetica, 'Droid Sans', Arial, 'Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px\" class=\"p2 disableActiveState jsHasHighlightListener\">Among the injured, sixteen were Jehovah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Witnesses. Additionally, one of Jehovah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Witnesses, a 65-year-old elder in a congregation in Douala, died in the accident. We are saddened by the loss of our fellow worshipper and the suffering experienced by all of the victims and their families.<\/p>\n<p id=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 1.25em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Light', Helvetica, 'Droid Sans', Arial, 'Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px\" class=\"p3 disableActiveState jsHasHighlightListener\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: none\">Media Contacts:<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: none\">International: David\u00c2\u00a0A. Semonian, Office of Public Information, 1-718-560-5000<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: none\">Cameroon: Gilles Mba, 237-6996-30727<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0https:\/\/www.jw.org\/en\/news\/releases\/by-region\/cameroon\/train-crash-disaster-20161104\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 On the morning of October\u00c2\u00a021, 2016, a train traveling to the port city of Douala, Cameroon, derailed near the town of Eseka, about 120\u00c2\u00a0kilometers (approx. 75\u00c2\u00a0mi.) from Yaound\u00c3\u00a9, the capital. Over 600 people were&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}