{"id":83990,"date":"2026-04-20T11:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/eight-injured-in-irkewwa-minibus-crash\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T11:46:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:46:00","slug":"eight-injured-in-irkewwa-minibus-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/eight-injured-in-irkewwa-minibus-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight injured in &#266;irkewwa minibus crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight injured in &#266;irkewwa minibus crash<\/p>\n<p>Eight people were injured on Monday morning when a minibus carrying Bulgarian tourists veered off Marfa Road in &#266;irkewwa, crashing through a wall and into a field.<\/p>\n<p>The accident occurred just before 9am as the vehicle was heading toward the ferry terminal.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services responded in force, with multiple ambulances, police units, and Civil Protection Department rescuers arriving at the scene to assist the victims.<\/p>\n<p>The group of injured passengers consisted of seven Bulgarian nationals, while the driver was identified as a 67-year-old man from St Paul&#8217;s Bay.<\/p>\n<p>While the current medical condition of those involved has not yet been confirmed, witnesses described a significant rescue operation at the site.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nRSS Feed Source: Independent Malta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.com.mt\/articles\/2026-04-20\/local-news\/Eight-injured-in-Cirkewwa-minibus-crash-6736288949\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eight injured in &#266;irkewwa minibus crash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight injured in &#266;irkewwa minibus crash Eight people were injured on Monday morning when a minibus carrying Bulgarian tourists veered off Marfa Road in &#266;irkewwa, crashing through a wall and into a field. The accident&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2139],"tags":[1850],"class_list":["post-83990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malta-news","tag-abatement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}