{"id":222679,"date":"2024-09-04T08:18:53","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T12:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=222679"},"modified":"2024-09-04T08:40:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T12:40:22","slug":"azua-bar-temporarily-closes-after-sunday-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/09\/04\/azua-bar-temporarily-closes-after-sunday-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Azua bar temporarily closes after Sunday tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Centro-Bebidas-en-Azua-tragedia-El-Caribe-1024x562.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-222705\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Centro-Bebidas-en-Azua-tragedia-El-Caribe-1024x562.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Centro-Bebidas-en-Azua-tragedia-El-Caribe-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Centro-Bebidas-en-Azua-tragedia-El-Caribe-768x422.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Centro-Bebidas-en-Azua-tragedia-El-Caribe-1536x843.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Centro-Bebidas-en-Azua-tragedia-El-Caribe-2048x1125.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption>Roadside bar-lounge where the tragedy occurred  \/ El Caribe<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Interior &amp; Police ordered the temporarily closed the roadside bar-lounge in Bastida, Azua where six people so far are reported dead after a truck loaded with avocados plunged into the entertainment business at 1am on Sunday, 1 September 2024. The lounge was full of people there to have a good time. The authorities say  there are 37 injured, several still in regional hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his weekly press conference on 2 September 2024, President Luis Abinader acknowledged tragedies such as this one will continue as long as businesses and houses continue to be built and operated beside main roads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The President said new measures will be announced shortly to improve road safety now that there is a new Minister of Interior and Police (Faride Raful) and a new director of the Transit and Transport Institute (Milton Morrison).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a previewlistener=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/noticiassin.com\/entierran-victimas-de-accidente-de-azua-cierran-centro-de-diversion-de-la-tragedia-1709603\/\">Noticias SIN <\/a><br><a previewlistener=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uGOHy2XCons\">La Semanal \u2013 53 minutes <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/09\/02\/truck-driver-turns-himself-in-after-deadly-crash-in-azua\/\">DR1 News<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 September 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Interior &amp; Police ordered the temporarily closed the roadside bar-lounge in Bastida, Azua where six people so far are reported dead after a truck loaded with avocados plunged into the entertainment business at 1am on Sunday, 1 September 2024. The lounge was full of people there to have a good time. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/09\/04\/azua-bar-temporarily-closes-after-sunday-tragedy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[330,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222679"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222712,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222679\/revisions\/222712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}