{"id":16056,"date":"2024-08-23T08:44:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T08:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=16056"},"modified":"2024-08-23T08:44:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T08:44:13","slug":"two-dead-ten-critically-injured-in-kiambu-county-bus-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=16056","title":{"rendered":"Two Dead, Ten Critically Injured in Kiambu County Bus Accident."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/bus-accident_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16057\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/bus-accident_0.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/bus-accident_0-480x240.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 700px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tragedy struck on Tuesday when two people lost their lives and ten others sustained critical injuries in a road accident along the Gitaru-Kikuyu Road in Kiambu County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Witnesses reported that the bus, owned by Archbishop Ezekiel&#8217;s group of schools, lost control and collided with an oncoming trailer. The impact caused the bus, which was fully loaded with passengers, to veer off the highway and overturn in a nearby thicket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rescue teams were swiftly dispatched to the scene, where they, alongside members of the public, managed to retrieve those trapped inside the wreckage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is reported that the bus had been hired by members of the public for an event and was attempting to join Waiyaki Way when the accident occurred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tragedy struck on Tuesday when two people lost their lives and ten others sustained critical injuries in a road accident along the Gitaru-Kikuyu Road in Kiambu County. Witnesses reported that the bus, owned by Archbishop Ezekiel&#8217;s group of schools, lost control and collided with an oncoming trailer. The impact caused the bus, which was fully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/bus-accident_0.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16058,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16056\/revisions\/16058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}