{"id":75272,"date":"2019-08-12T00:44:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T19:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=75272"},"modified":"2019-08-12T00:44:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T19:14:31","slug":"1-dies-15-injured-in-road-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/08\/12\/1-dies-15-injured-in-road-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dies, 15 injured in road accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>LONGDING, Aug 11:<\/strong> A former gram panchayat member (GPM) was killed and 15 others were injured, four of them critically, when a pickup van met with an accident after it skidded off the hilly road near Khanu village in Longding district on Sunday morning.<br \/>\nThe ill-fated vehicle, carrying football and volleyball players, was on its way from Khanu to Wakka. Reportedly, the driver lost control over the steering wheel while negotiating a sharp turn on the hilly road at Langgau rooh.<br \/>\nTeam Khanu was due to play against Team Chongkhau, in the ongoing Independence Cup football and volleyball tournaments, on Sunday.<br \/>\nThe deceased has been identified as Gangngam Gangsa, a native of Khanu village. The former GPM of Khanu leaves behind his wife and three children.<br \/>\nOne Pongshih Wangham, who survived the accident with minor injuries, said the driver lost control over the vehicle while negotiating a sharp turn.<br \/>\n&#8220;I was sitting next to the driver, along with a woman with her six-month-old baby, when the incident occurred,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nThe woman also received grievous injuries while protecting her baby.<br \/>\nThe injured persons were given preliminary treatment at the Wakka PHC. The four critically injured persons have been referred to Dibrugarh (Assam) for further treatment. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGDING, Aug 11: A former gram panchayat member (GPM) was killed and 15 others were injured, four of them critically, when a pickup van met with an accident after it skidded off the hilly road near Khanu village in Longding district on Sunday morning. The ill-fated vehicle, carrying football and volleyball players, was on its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-75272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}