{"id":19490,"date":"2022-04-03T21:29:43","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T21:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=19490"},"modified":"2022-04-03T21:29:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T21:29:43","slug":"passengers-flee-for-their-lives-as-metro-mass-transit-bus-catches-fire-on-ho-tsito-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/04\/03\/passengers-flee-for-their-lives-as-metro-mass-transit-bus-catches-fire-on-ho-tsito-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Passengers flee for their lives as Metro Mass Transit bus catches fire on Ho-Tsito road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers fled for their lives when a Metro Mass Transit bus caught fire on the Ho-Tsito road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"st-inarticle-slot\">\n<div id=\"standard_2\" class=\"st-placement standard_2 inArticle\">\n<p>The intercity bus that was conveying passengers from Kumasi to Ho caught fire few minutes after take-off.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, the bus developed some mechanical faults, causing the front part of the vehicle to spark fire.<\/p>\n<p>More than 20 passengers escaped unhurt as smoke takes over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe incident was happening as they were disembarking, but all of them came out unhurt,\u201d a source told Adom News.<\/p>\n<p>Although Firefighters rushed to the scene to control the fire, the bus was burnt beyond repair.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is yet to be established.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-google-query-id=\"CPPW9rDq-PYCFetAHQkdB-YK3Q\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"standard_2\" class=\"st-placement standard_2 inArticle\">\n<p>The issue of road fires has been prevalent in the first quarter of the year. Two of such major fires were recorded in the previous month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers fled for their lives when a Metro Mass Transit bus caught fire on the Ho-Tsito road. The intercity bus that was conveying passengers from Kumasi to Ho caught fire few minutes after take-off. According to sources, the bus developed some mechanical faults, causing the front part of the vehicle to spark fire. More than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":19491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[5719,6159,4202,4331,11179],"class_list":["post-19490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-bus","tag-fire","tag-ho","tag-kumasi","tag-smoke"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}