{"id":427397,"date":"2011-05-20T12:43:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T12:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/20\/investigation-under-way-into-south-african-train-collision\/"},"modified":"2011-05-20T12:43:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T12:43:44","slug":"investigation-under-way-into-south-african-train-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/20\/investigation-under-way-into-south-african-train-collision\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation under way into South African train collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"62.5\">\n<div readability=\"20\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>STORY HIGHLIGHTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Three people remain hospitalized from the train collision<\/li>\n<li>More than 850 suffered injuries from Thursday night&#8217;s incident<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>(CNN)<\/strong> &#8212; South African authorities are investigating a train collision that injured 857 people outside Johannesburg, a Metrorail spokesman told CNN Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Three people remain hospitalized with critical injuries after Thursday night&#8217;s collision, the spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>The two Metrorail trains &#8212; a business express and a regular commuter &#8212; collided in Soweto.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, a train collision west of Pretoria killed one person and left 100 people with minor injuries. In that wreck, the trains were traveling on the same track when they hit each other.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rss.cnn.com\/~r\/rss\/edition_africa\/~3\/dQhHMrLo1Yc\/index.html\" title=\"Investigation under way into South African train collision\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Investigation under way into South African train collision<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> STORY HIGHLIGHTS Three people remain hospitalized from the train collision More than 850 suffered injuries from Thursday night&#8217;s incident (CNN) &#8212; South African authorities are investigating a train collision that injured 857 people outside Johannesburg, a Metrorail spokesman told CNN Friday. Three people remain hospitalized with critical injuries after Thursday night&#8217;s collision, the spokesman said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Investigation under way into South African train collision - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/20\/investigation-under-way-into-south-african-train-collision\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Investigation under way into South African train collision - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"STORY HIGHLIGHTS Three people remain hospitalized from the train collision More than 850 suffered injuries from Thursday night&#039;s incident (CNN) -- South African authorities are investigating a train collision that injured 857 people outside Johannesburg, a Metrorail spokesman told CNN Friday. 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