{"id":30598,"date":"2021-01-11T12:57:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T11:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=30598"},"modified":"2021-01-11T12:57:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T11:57:05","slug":"black-weekend-for-travellers-as-37-perish-in-akwanga-tirwun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=30598","title":{"rendered":"Black weekend for travellers as 37 perish in Akwanga, Tirwun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not less than 37 persons perished in two separate accidents in Akwanga, Nasarawa State on the Abuja- Jos road, and the Bauchi &#8211; Maiduguri road following collisions that led to fire outbreaks.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Akwanga, a commercial bus rammed into an oncoming car, leading to the death of 17 persons, while 20 passengers died in the multiple accidents along Bauchi \u2013 Maiduguri expressway near Tirwun village a suburb of Bauchi capital city.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only two persons reportedly survived in one of the buses.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Police Public Relations Officer, Bauchi Command Ahmed Wakili said the corpses have been deposited in the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital Mortuary, Bauchi..<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Wakili the accident occurred on Sunday afternoon when two commercial vehicles; a Volkswagen Golf heading from Misau to Bauchi and a Hummer Bus heading to Maiduguri from Jos collided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not less than 37 persons perished in two separate accidents in Akwanga, Nasarawa State on the Abuja- Jos road, and the Bauchi &#8211; Maiduguri road following collisions that led to fire outbreaks. In Akwanga, a commercial bus rammed into an oncoming car, leading to the death of 17 persons, while 20 passengers died in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2749,2750,65],"class_list":["post-30598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-2749","tag-collision","tag-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}