{"id":10902,"date":"2019-10-17T10:29:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T05:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=10902"},"modified":"2019-10-17T10:29:32","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T05:29:32","slug":"saudi-bus-crash-kills-at-least-35-foreign-pilgrims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/10902","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Bus Crash Kills at least 35 Foreign Pilgrims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 35 foreigners were killed and four others injured when a bus crashed with another heavy vehicle in the Muslim holy city of Medina, Saudi state media said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The accident involved a collision between &#8220;a private chartered bus&#8230; with a heavy vehicle (loader)&#8221; in the western Saudi Arabian city, according to a spokesman for Medina police.<\/p>\n<p>Those on the bus were expats in the Kingdom and of Asian and Arab nationalities, local media reported.<\/p>\n<p>The injured have been transferred to Al-Hamna Hospital, it added, and authorities have launched an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>As part of efforts to diversify its oil-dependent economy, the ultra-conservative kingdom wants to foster a year-round religious tourism sector that includes millions of pilgrims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 35 foreigners were killed and four others injured when a bus crashed with another heavy vehicle in the Muslim holy city of Medina, Saudi state media said on Thursday. The accident involved a collision between &#8220;a private chartered bus&#8230; with a heavy vehicle (loader)&#8221; in the western Saudi Arabian city, according to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1460,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10904,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10902\/revisions\/10904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}