{"id":167740,"date":"2026-04-16T17:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/167740\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T17:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:48:09","slug":"minibus-taxi-catches-fire-in-zimbabwe-killing-several-people-ap-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/167740\/","title":{"rendered":"Minibus taxi catches fire in Zimbabwe, killing several people | Ap-world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) \u2014 A minibus taxi in southwest Zimbabwe caught fire on a highway Thursday, killing about a dozen and a half people, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesperson Paul Nyathi said that authorities were still trying to verify the exact number of victims, but that it was \u201capproximately 18.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle \u201cexploded into fire\u201d on a highway near the second biggest city of Bulawayo in the southwest of the country, police said in a separate statement. They didn\u2019t immediately give a cause of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Minibus taxis are a popular method of public transport in the southern African nation and are often packed beyond their recommended capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) \u2014 A minibus taxi in southwest Zimbabwe caught fire on a highway Thursday, killing about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,25705,35,38,25866,301,75530],"class_list":{"0":"post-167740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-automotive-accidents","12":"tag-fires","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-mass-transit","15":"tag-world-news","16":"tag-zimbabwe-minibus-taxi-fatal-fire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}