{"id":9884,"date":"2014-05-12T15:10:06","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T07:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=9884"},"modified":"2014-05-12T15:10:06","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T07:10:06","slug":"state-media-in-uae-say-indians-bangladeshis-among-15-killed-in-migrant-workers-bus-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/12\/state-media-in-uae-say-indians-bangladeshis-among-15-killed-in-migrant-workers-bus-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"State media in UAE say Indians, Bangladeshis among 15 killed in migrant workers&#8217; bus crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6759\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6759\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_96304217.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6759\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_96304217.jpg\" alt=\"Shutterstock photo\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_96304217.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_96304217-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6759\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Shutterstock photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>DUBAI, United Arab Emirates &#8211; State media in the United Arab Emirates say 15 Asian migrant workers have been killed in a bus crash in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>The WAM news agency said the labourers were killed Saturday when their bus rammed into a truck parked on the shoulder of a major highway that passes along the outskirts of the Mideast commercial hub. Thirteen others were reported injured.<\/p>\n<p>The government-owned National newspaper reported Sunday that at least nine of the dead were from India and four were Bangladeshi.<\/p>\n<p>Blue-collar South Asian migrant labourers dominate the workforce in Dubai. They primarily live in basic dormitory accommodations and travel to job sites on privately run buses.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2013, at least 22 migrant workers died when a gravel-filled truck with faulty brakes rammed their bus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI, United Arab Emirates &#8211; State media in the United Arab Emirates say 15 Asian migrant workers have been killed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":6759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,17],"tags":[619,1312,1493,623],"class_list":["post-9884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news-w","tag-bus","tag-crash","tag-dubai","tag-ml","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9884","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}