{"id":514433,"date":"2022-08-16T12:44:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T07:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=514433"},"modified":"2022-08-16T12:44:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T07:14:09","slug":"bus-oil-tanker-crash-leaves-20-dead-in-pakistans-punjab-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bus-oil-tanker-crash-leaves-20-dead-in-pakistans-punjab-province\/","title":{"rendered":"Bus-oil tanker crash leaves 20 dead in Pakistan&#8217;s Punjab province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 20 people were burnt alive in a collision between a passenger bus and an oil tanker in Pakistan&#8217;s Punjab province on Tuesday, rescue officials said, the second major road accident in the province in three days.<\/p>\n<p>The accident occurred on a motorway in Multan, some 350 kms from Lahore, reportedly because of overspeeding, police said. Traffic remained suspended on the motorway for several hours after the accident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Twenty people have perished in a collision between a bus which was going to Karachi from Lahore and an oil tanker. After the collision, both the bus and tanker caught fire and the passengers were burnt alive,&#8221; a Rescue 1122 spokesperson added that six passengers who suffered burn injuries were shifted to Nishtar Hospital in Multan where their condition is stated to be critical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 20 people were burnt alive in a collision between a passenger bus and an oil tanker in Pakistan&#8217;s Punjab province on Tuesday, rescue officials said, the second major road accident in the province in three days. The accident occurred on a motorway in Multan, some 350 kms from Lahore, reportedly because of overspeeding, police said. Traffic remained suspended on the motorway for several hours after the accident. &#8220;Twenty people have perished in a collision between a bus which was going to Karachi from Lahore and an oil tanker. After the collision, both the bus and tanker caught fire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}