{"id":25608,"date":"2013-02-04T17:13:07","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T16:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/02\/04\/287258\/bustruck-collision-kills-22-in-uae\/"},"modified":"2013-02-04T17:13:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T16:13:07","slug":"bus-truck-collision-kills-22-in-uae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/bus-truck-collision-kills-22-in-uae\/","title":{"rendered":"Bus-Truck collision kills 22 in UAE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"divDetailBody\">\n<p>At least 22 people are killed and 24 others injured after a concrete truck slammed into a bus transporting workers near Al-Ain city in the UAE.<\/p>\n<p>The truck crashed into the bus carrying 46 Asian workers on Monday during rush hour , General Hussein al-Harithi, director of Abu Dhabi traffic police said.<\/p>\n<p>Harithi said that the 22 victims were killed, while the wounded were taken to Ali Ain hospitals, some of them by helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>The accident could have been caused by faulty brakes and failure to leave a safe distance between vehicles, the official added.<\/p>\n<p>Migrant workers, make up a majority of the resident population of the UAE, and account for 90 percent of its workforce.<\/p>\n<p>The UAE is constantly criticized for its poor living and working conditions provided for foreign workers. They lack rights associated with citizenship and face a variety of restrictions on their rights as workers.<\/p>\n<p>PG\/JR<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 22 people are killed and 24 others injured after a concrete truck slammed into a bus transporting workers near Al-Ain city in the UAE.<br \/>\nThe truck crashed into the bus carrying 46 Asian workers on Monday during rush hour , General Hussein al-Ha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}