{"id":141574,"date":"2017-12-25T15:08:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T20:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=141574"},"modified":"2017-12-25T15:08:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T20:08:20","slug":"20-dead-as-bus-collides-with-van-in-northern-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/25\/20-dead-as-bus-collides-with-van-in-northern-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"20 dead as bus collides with van in northern Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_141575\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141575\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/AGOO.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-141575\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/AGOO.png\" alt=\"A passenger bus collided with a van carrying pilgrims to Christmas Mass at a church in the northern Philippines on Monday, leaving 20 people dead and more than two dozen injured, police said. (Google Maps)\" width=\"810\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/AGOO.png 810w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/AGOO-300x183.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/AGOO-768x468.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-141575\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A passenger bus collided with a van carrying pilgrims to Christmas Mass at a church in the northern Philippines on Monday, leaving 20 people dead and more than two dozen injured, police said. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com.ph\/maps\/place\/Agoo,+La+Union\/@16.3128335,120.3726154,12z\/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x339177766de14b31:0x87d0091a84653fc4!8m2!3d16.3247042!4d120.3550808\" target=\"_blank\">Google Maps<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BAGUIO, Philippines\u2014A passenger bus collided with a van carrying pilgrims to Christmas Mass at a church in the northern Philippines on Monday, leaving 20 people dead and more than two dozen injured, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police Chief Superintendent Romulo Sapitula said all those killed in the pre-dawn collision in La Union province&#8217;s Agoo town were in the van, known as jeepneys. Another 10 van passengers, along with the driver and 17 other occupants of the bus, were injured.<\/p>\n<p>The van&#8217;s engine was ripped off due to the impact of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The van passengers were bound for Our Lady of Manaoag, a Roman Catholic church in northern Pangasinan province that has long been popular among pilgrims and Catholics praying for the sick and impoverished, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Rickety passenger buses and jeepneys, lack of safety signs, poor law enforcements and reckless driving have been blamed for many road tragedies in the Philippines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGUIO, Philippines\u2014A passenger bus collided with a van carrying pilgrims to Christmas Mass at a church in the northern Philippines &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":141575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[1345,40262,8790,19336,24415],"class_list":["post-141574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-accident","tag-agoo","tag-christmas","tag-la-union","tag-vehicular-accident","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}