{"id":44797,"date":"2026-09-07T07:21:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T05:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=44797"},"modified":"2026-09-07T07:21:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T05:21:44","slug":"at-least-25-killed-in-bus-crash-on-cape-verdes-fogo-island","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/at-least-25-killed-in-bus-crash-on-cape-verdes-fogo-island\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 25 killed in bus crash on Cape Verde&#8217;s Fogo island"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">At least 25 people, many of them schoolchildren \u200band teenagers, were killed when \u200ca bus plunged into a ravine on Fogo, one of Cape Verde&#8217;s \u200bislands in the Atlantic Ocean \u200boff the coast of West \u2060Africa, national<i>\u00a0news agency Inforpress<\/i>\u00a0\u200breported on Sunday.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The crash occurred on \u200ba mountain road in northern Fogo late on Saturday, when the bus veered \u200boff the road and plunged \u200babout 30 metres into a steep ravine, \u200cit \u2060said.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Many of those on board were primary and secondary school students, the agency said.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Several injured passengers \u200bwere taken \u200bto \u2060Sao Francisco de Assis Regional Hospital on Fogo.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Education \u200bofficials said the outing was \u200bnot \u2060organised by local schools but was an annual trip privately \u2060arranged \u200bby the driver, who \u200bwas among those killed,<i>\u00a0Inforpress<\/i>\u00a0said.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22584,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-44797","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"At least 25 people, many of them schoolchildren were killed","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44797","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\/44797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44798,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44797\/revisions\/44798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=44797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}