{"id":99464,"date":"2017-04-22T09:43:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T13:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=99464"},"modified":"2017-04-22T09:43:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T13:43:35","slug":"spain-13-injured-as-ferry-slams-into-port-in-canary-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/22\/spain-13-injured-as-ferry-slams-into-port-in-canary-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain: 13 injured as ferry slams into port in Canary Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_99465\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-99465\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/800px-El_Burrero_-_Roque_dique_y_Gando.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99465\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/800px-El_Burrero_-_Roque_dique_y_Gando.jpg\" alt=\"Spanish authorities say 13 passengers aboard a ferry have been injured when the boat slammed into a breakwater in a port on the Canary Islands. (Photo by Mololo (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0)])\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/800px-El_Burrero_-_Roque_dique_y_Gando.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/800px-El_Burrero_-_Roque_dique_y_Gando-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/800px-El_Burrero_-_Roque_dique_y_Gando-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-99465\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spanish authorities say 13 passengers aboard a ferry have been injured when the boat slammed into a breakwater in a port on the Canary Islands. (Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AEl_Burrero_-_Roque%2C_dique_y_Gando.JPG\">Mololo (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0)]<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>MADRID \u2014 Spanish authorities say 13 passengers aboard a ferry have been injured when the boat slammed into a breakwater in a port on the Canary Islands.<\/p>\n<p>Manolo Vidal, spokesman for Naviera Armas, the company that owns the ferry, says that a \u201closs of electrical power\u201d caused the accident as the boat was leaving the Puerta de la Luz on the island of Gran Canaria Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services say five of the injured needed to receive attention at a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Televised images show the ferry hitting the breakwater head-on, sending chunks of the concrete wall tumbling down onto a service road.<\/p>\n<p>The company says that the ferry was able to dock following the accident and that the passengers had been placed in hotels.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADRID \u2014 Spanish authorities say 13 passengers aboard a ferry have been injured when the boat slammed into a breakwater &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":99465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[2223],"class_list":["post-99464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-ferry","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99464","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=99464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}