{"id":40582,"date":"2017-02-10T10:50:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T08:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=40582"},"modified":"2017-02-10T10:50:36","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T08:50:36","slug":"three-die-in-bus-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/02\/10\/three-die-in-bus-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Three die in bus accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two women and an infant have died after a bus they were travelling in from Mzuzu to Lilongwe was involved in a road accident near Jenda Road Block in Mzimba on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The bus a Scania Marcopolo registration Number MN 4129 belongs to Matours Bus Services.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mzimba Police Spokesperson, Patrick Botha, the driver, Adams Chilowe, aged 35 years, failed to realign the bus back to its lane after overtaking a stationary truck which had broken down near Chibisa area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to loss of control, the bus swerved to the nearby drain thus causing a great impact on it which resulted into the three people dying on the spot,\u201d Botha said.<\/p>\n<p>He further disclosed that 11 passengers sustained serious injuries, while 10 sustained minor ones and were all taken to Mzimba District Hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, investigations are underway and no arrest has been made.<\/p>\n<p>The driver comes from Mwanyungwa Village in Traditional Authority Mwambo in Zomba District<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two women and an infant have died after a bus they were travelling in from Mzuzu to Lilongwe was involved in a road accident near Jenda Road Block in Mzimba on Wednesday night. The bus a Scania Marcopolo registration Number MN 4129 belongs to Matours Bus Services. According to Mzimba Police Spokesperson, Patrick Botha, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40586,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40582\/revisions\/40586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}