{"id":482,"date":"2016-12-17T16:36:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T16:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=482"},"modified":"2016-12-17T16:36:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T16:36:27","slug":"several-killed-following-bus-and-van-accident-in-jaffna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/several-killed-following-bus-and-van-accident-in-jaffna\/","title":{"rendered":"Several killed following bus and van accident in Jaffna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several people were killed in Jaffna following an accident involving a bus and a van.<\/p>\n<p>The police said that at least 11 people were confirmed dead so far.<\/p>\n<p>The accident occurred when the passenger bus collided head on with the van which was transporting a group of pilgrims to Jaffna from the south.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the dead included 4 women.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-484\" src=\"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/A1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/A1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/A1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-485\" src=\"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/A2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/A2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/A2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-486\" src=\"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/A3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/A3.jpg 300w, https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/A3-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-487\" src=\"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/A4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/A4.jpg 300w, https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/A4-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several people were killed in Jaffna following an accident involving a bus and a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}