{"id":8831,"date":"2024-10-08T17:39:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T14:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/?p=8831"},"modified":"2024-10-08T17:39:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T14:39:02","slug":"bus-explodes-in-flames-after-colliding-with-a-lorry-in-tanzania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/bus-explodes-in-flames-after-colliding-with-a-lorry-in-tanzania\/","title":{"rendered":"Bus explodes in flames after colliding with a lorry in Tanzania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">One person was killed and 19 were injured when their bus knocked a lorry and caught fire on Friday night in Tanzania\u2019s southern highlands region of Songwe, police said on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Janet Magomi, the Songwe regional police commander, said the accident occurred on Friday at 10 p.m. local time when the bus caught fire after it knocked the lorry in Mbozi district near the border with Zambia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">\u201cThe deceased passenger and the 19 injured passengers are citizens of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),\u201d Magomi told a news conference, adding that the bus driven by a Tanzanian national was heading to Lubumbashi in DRC from the commercial capital Dar es Salaam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">She said the bus knocked a defective lorry which was parked alongside the road, adding that the lorry was ferrying cement to Rukwa region from Songwe region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Magomi said four of the injured passengers, including the driver of the bus, were in critical condition and they were rushed to Mbeya regional referral hospital for specialized treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">She said the other injured passengers were admitted to the Songwe regional government hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Songwe regional commissioner, Omary Mgumba, said the bus and passengers\u2019 luggage were reduced to ashes by the fire.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One person was killed and 19 were injured when their bus knocked a lorry and caught fire on Friday night in Tanzania\u2019s southern highlands region of Songwe, police said on Saturday. &nbsp; Janet Magomi, the Songwe regional police commander, said the accident occurred on Friday at 10 p.m. local time when the bus caught fire&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,1975],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-road-safety"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pej6K6-2ir","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-content\/uploads\/yrNvZVXtRQTahmeedFire.png?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}