{"id":1004322,"date":"2022-02-25T20:15:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T20:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/25\/bomb-explodes-on-brazilian-team-bus-injuring-three\/"},"modified":"2022-02-25T20:15:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T20:15:55","slug":"bomb-explodes-on-brazilian-team-bus-injuring-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/25\/bomb-explodes-on-brazilian-team-bus-injuring-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Bomb explodes on Brazilian team bus, injuring three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/110625869_gettyimages-451877342-Copy-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"Brazil fans were emotional following their country's defeat to Germany in 2014\" title=\"Brazil fans were emotional following their country's defeat to Germany in 2014\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">File photo: Brazil fan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Brazilian second division side Bahia say three of their players were injured when a bomb exploded on the team bus.<\/p>\n<p>The club say the bomb went off as the bus arrived at their home stadium in Salvador for a regional cup match against Sampaio Correa.<\/p>\n<p>Goalkeeper Danilo Fernandes was taken to hospital with facial injuries, while left-back Matheus Bahia and forward Marcelo Cirino were also hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the incident Bahia chose to play the game and won 2-0.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEsporte Clube Bahia reports that a bomb exploded inside the team\u2019s bus on arrival at Fonte Nova and athletes were injured. The most worrying case is that of goalkeeper Danilo Fernandes, who was hit by shrapnel in the face and already taken to a hospital,\u201d the club\u00a0tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>In a later tweet, the club said Fernandes was \u201cfine\u201d but will spend the night in hospital after suffering \u201cmultiple injuries to his face, neck and lower limbs\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Bahia boss Guto Ferreira praised the \u201cdignity and professionalism\u201d of his players after deciding to play the match.<\/p>\n<p>A number of other Brazilian clubs tweeted in support of Bahia following in the incident including Internacional, which wrote: \u201cWe are together, and we express our indignation with yet another violent attack on Brazilian football.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Botafogo said: \u201cUnacceptable. Criminal act that needs serious investigation. Botafogo stands with our colleagues at Bahia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"bbjPUXlWL8M\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"One-on-One With Deputy Majority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin -  Adom TV (24-2-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bbjPUXlWL8M?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File photo: Brazil fan Brazilian second division side Bahia say three of their players were injured when a bomb exploded on the team bus. The club say the bomb went off as the bus arrived at their home stadium in Salvador for a regional cup match against Sampaio Correa. Goalkeeper Danilo Fernandes was taken to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1004323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[5461,1904,5408,5462,5463,97],"class_list":["post-1004322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bomb","tag-brazilian","tag-bus","tag-explodes","tag-injuring","tag-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}