{"id":37122,"date":"2026-06-15T11:41:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=37122"},"modified":"2026-06-15T11:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:41:19","slug":"twenty-eight-killed-in-ethiopia-bus-crash","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/twenty-eight-killed-in-ethiopia-bus-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-eight killed in Ethiopia bus crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">At least 28 people were killed when \u200ba bus plunged into \u200ca ravine in Ethiopia&#8217;s Amhara region, regional state-run Amhara \u200bMedia Corporation reported on \u200bMonday, citing police.<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-body-separator-line\" dir=\"auto\" data-applydefaultfontstyles=\"true\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The bus was \u2060travelling from Dessie to \u200bthe capital, Addis Ababa, \u200bwhen the crash occurred, the broadcaster said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;So far, 28 people have \u200blost their lives, while \u200bmany others have sustained minor and \u200cserious \u2060injuries,&#8221; it quoted police as saying.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Deadly road accidents are common in Ethiopia, where \u200bdriving \u200bstandards \u2060are often poor and many vehicles are \u200bbadly maintained.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In 2024, at \u200bleast \u206071 people died in the southern Sidama region \u2060after \u200ba truck plunged \u200binto a river.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21493,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-37122","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Ethiopia bus crash","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37123,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37122\/revisions\/37123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=37122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}