{"id":5176,"date":"2014-09-08T16:43:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T09:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5176"},"modified":"2014-09-08T16:43:59","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T09:43:59","slug":"two-australians-killed-in-kenya-after-bus-crashes-into-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/two-australians-killed-in-kenya-after-bus-crashes-into-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Australians killed in Kenya after bus crashes into river"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two Australian tourists who died when their truck crashed into a river along a steep section of a road in Kenya were on an Intrepid Travel tour of East Africa at the time, the Melbourne-based tour company has confirmed.<\/p>\n

Three other tourists – an Australian, a Briton and a German – suffered serious head injuries after the overland truck they were travelling in crashed through guard rails in Kenya’s Narok County, about two hours west of Nairobi, police said.<\/p>\n

The Narok North police chief, Paul Letting, said the driver of the tour vehicle lost control when the right front tyre burst as it was descending a steep section of the road. The two dead were a man and a woman in their 60s, he said.<\/p>\n

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Two Australian tourists who died when their truck crashed into a river along a steep section of a road in Kenya were on an Intrepid Travel tour of East Africa at the time, the Melbourne-based tour company has confirmed. Three other tourists – an Australian, a Briton and a German – suffered serious head injuries […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,3955,3953,3951,3956,3952,4695,3957,3954,4688,430,259,3959,257,3958,254],"class_list":["post-5176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-australian","tag-australian-tourists","tag-australians-killed-in-kenya","tag-briton","tag-bus-crashes-into-river","tag-east-africa","tag-german","tag-intrepid-travel-tour-of-east-africa","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-nairobi","tag-narok-county","tag-news","tag-overland-truck","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}