{"id":886,"date":"2012-02-21T21:09:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T21:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2012\/02\/21\/at-least-27-dead-30-injured-in-traffic-accident-in-ecuador\/"},"modified":"2022-12-19T21:31:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T18:31:32","slug":"at-least-27-dead-30-injured-in-traffic-accident-in-ecuador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/at-least-27-dead-30-injured-in-traffic-accident-in-ecuador\/","title":{"rendered":"At Least 27 Dead, 30 Injured in Traffic Accident in Ecuador"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\">QUITO \u2013 At least 27 people died and 30 others were injured Sunday in a bus crash in the northern Ecuadorian province of Imbabura, said Victor Bazantes, with the fire department in the city of Ibarra.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Based on the statements of survivors, Bazantes said that apparently the bus in which they were riding had a problem with its brakes and crashed into a wall, then rolled down an incline.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The accident occurred on the Ibarra-San Lorenzo highway linking the provinces of Imbabura with Esmeraldas, the latter on the border with Colombia.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Three children died in the crash, which occurred near the community of Cuajara, near the city of Ibarra, the capital of the same-named Andean province.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The injured were taken to nearby medical facilities, but two people were transported by helicopter to Quito, Bazantes said.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">A relative of some of the victims told the daily El Comercio that the people on the bus were <em><strong>Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses<\/strong><\/em> who were traveling to a church service in the parish of Lita.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8211;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">http:\/\/www.laht.com\/article.asp?ArticleId=471822&#038;CategoryId=14089<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUITO \u2013 At least 27 people died and 30 others were injured Sunday in a bus crash in the northern Ecuadorian province of Imbabura, said Victor Bazantes, with the fire department in the city of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-news","category-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","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=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6563,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/6563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}