{"id":610,"date":"2015-01-13T23:23:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T23:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=610"},"modified":"2015-01-13T23:25:50","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T23:25:50","slug":"shell-hits-bus-killing-12-in-eastern-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/shell-hits-bus-killing-12-in-eastern-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Shell hits bus &#8216;killing 12&#8217; in eastern Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\" class=\"introduction\">A shell has hit a bus in eastern Ukraine, killing at least 12 civilians and wounding many more, Ukraine&#8217;s military says.<\/p>\n<p>A statement said the incident happened at a government checkpoint in Buhas, about 35km (22 miles) south-west of the rebel stronghold of Donetsk.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman for the Interior Ministry in the Donetsk region, Vyacheslav Ambroskin said, the checkpoint was shelled from the direction of the town of Dokuchaevsk, which is under the control of local militia forces. The town of Volnovakha is under Kiev\u2019s control.<\/p>\n<p>Donetsk regional officials blamed pro-Russian rebels but a report said rebel leaders had denied involvement.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s Donetsk Prosecutor\u2019s Office has launched an investigation into the shelling, qualifying the case as a terrorist act, according to its press service. It said that the attack was \u201ctargeted&#8221; and \u201ccarried out by a Grad multiple rocket launcher using over 40 shells.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fighting has intensified recently, despite a truce agreed in September.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_615\" style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ukraine-Bus2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-615\" class=\"size-full wp-image-615\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ukraine-Bus2.jpg?resize=585%2C437\" alt=\"Bus shelled near Ukraine military checkpoint.\" width=\"585\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ukraine-Bus2.jpg?w=585&amp;ssl=1 585w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ukraine-Bus2.jpg?resize=300%2C224&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-615\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bus shelled near Ukraine military checkpoint.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A shell has hit a bus in eastern Ukraine, killing at least 12 civilians and wounding many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62,1],"tags":[75,20,22],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-conflict","tag-russia","tag-ukraine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ukraine-Bus.jpg?fit=624%2C368&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-9Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":616,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions\/616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}