{"id":44770,"date":"2026-09-06T12:29:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T10:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=44770"},"modified":"2026-09-06T12:29:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T10:29:54","slug":"cape-verde-school-bus-crash-kills-over-20","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/cape-verde-school-bus-crash-kills-over-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Verde school bus crash kills over 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 20 people have been killed on Cape Verde&#8217;s Fogo Island after a bus carrying primary school children on an excursion veered off a mountain road and plunged 30 metres down a steep ravine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services confirmed that 18 survivors were rushed to a regional hospital, with four remaining in critical condition. The passengers included school pupils aged between 6 and 11, though island authorities have not yet released an official breakdown of the casualties.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cape Verdean President Jos\u00e9 Maria Neves expressed deep sorrow following one of the deadliest road disasters in the archipelago&#8217;s recent history. Local authorities have declared two days of national mourning as law enforcement officials initiate a formal investigation into the cause of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":43320,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-44770","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Cape Verde declares mourning after deadly bus crash","published_date":"2026-09-06 11:04:07","news_description":"Cape Verde declares mourning after deadly bus crash","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44770","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\/44770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44771,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44770\/revisions\/44771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=44770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}