{"id":5882,"date":"2015-08-30T12:46:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T12:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=5882"},"modified":"2015-08-30T12:46:25","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T12:46:25","slug":"38-virgins-on-their-way-to-dance-topless-for-swaziland-king-die-in-fatal-road-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=5882","title":{"rendered":"38 Virgins on Their Way to Dance Topless for Swaziland King Die in Fatal Road Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 38 Swazi ma<a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Swaziland-topless-dance.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5883\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Swaziland-topless-dance-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"Swaziland topless dance\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Swaziland-topless-dance-300x179.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Swaziland-topless-dance.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Delta-newsroom-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5816\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Delta-newsroom-logo1.png\" alt=\"Delta newsroom logo\" width=\"270\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>idens have died in a road accident on their way to an annual festival in which King Mswati chooses a wife.<\/p>\n<p>Their deaths calls for a cancellation of Monday\u2019s annual event in which tens of thousands of topless teenage virgins dance for King Mswati.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe girls are packed into these trucks, standing room only, like cattle. This was an accident that was waiting to happen for a long time,\u201d said an eyewitness to the carnage that ensued on Friday night when a truck carrying 50 teenage girls struck a car that police escorts had directed to the roadside.<\/p>\n<p>A second fully-loaded truck slammed into the first lorry from the rear on a decline from a highway bridge in Matsapha, halfway between Manzini and Mswati\u2019s palace at Lozitha.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to information gathered, so serious was the accident that the tarmac was awash with blood, and critically injured imbali [maidens] were littered all over the place,\u201d the Swazi Observer newspaper reported on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper hinted at casualties but provided no death figure, while the Times of Swaziland reported seven deaths. On Saturday at least 38 fatalities were reported but without official confirmation.<br \/>\nThe Citizen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 38 Swazi maidens have died in a road accident on their way to an annual festival in which King Mswati chooses a wife. Their deaths calls for a cancellation of Monday\u2019s annual event in which tens of thousands of topless teenage virgins dance for King Mswati. \u201cThe girls are packed into these trucks, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[568,567],"class_list":["post-5882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-strange-world","tag-king-mswati","tag-swazi-maidens"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Swaziland-topless-dance.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-1wS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5884,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882\/revisions\/5884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}