{"id":98395,"date":"2018-10-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionpal.ahmadalkhuleyf.net\/post\/7820\/"},"modified":"2018-10-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T21:00:00","slug":"7820","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/post\/7820","title":{"rendered":"Truck Accident Claims Lives of 22 Migrants West of Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>At least 22 migrants, including children, have been killed in a truck accident Sunday, Turkey&#8217;s official news agency said.<\/div>\n<div>The Anadolu news agency said the migrants were traveling in a truck in the western province of Izmir that rolled over off a bridge. Video footage showed a destroyed truck, tipped upside down in a waterway with personal items scattered all around.<\/div>\n<div>Thirteen people were injured in the crash and were being treated in nearby hospitals. Their nationalities were not given and authorities have launched an investigation.<\/div>\n<div>Turkish media reported the driver was among the injured and said in his initial statement to police that a car had swerved in front of him.<\/div>\n<div>Hundreds of thousands of migrants have set out to sea from Turkey&#8217;s coasts in the last few years to try to reach neighboring Greece. A deal with the EU in 2016 to send those migrants back to Turkey significantly curbed the number of border crossings but many desperate migrants still attempt the life-threatening journey.<\/div>\n<div>According to AGPS data, 51 Palestinians from Syria died onboard the \u201cdeath boats\u201dto Europe, fleeing war-torn Syria.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 22 migrants, including children, have been killed in a truck accident Sunday, Turkey&#8217;s official news agency said. The Anadolu news agency said the migrants were traveling in a truck in the western province of Izmir that rolled over off a bridge. Video footage showed a destroyed truck, tipped upside down in a waterway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-98395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}