{"id":11860,"date":"2026-01-07T08:27:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=11860"},"modified":"2026-01-07T08:27:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:27:33","slug":"64-killed-341-injured-in-myanmars-yangon-mandalay-highway-accidents-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=11860","title":{"rendered":"64 killed, 341 injured in Myanmar&#8217;s Yangon-Mandalay highway accidents in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>7 January 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 64 people were killed and 341 injured in 180 traffic accidents on Myanmar&#8217;s Yangon-Mandalay highway in 2025, according to the highway traffic police force on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This marks a decrease in accidents, fatalities and injuries compared with 2024, which recorded 203 accidents, resulting in 88 deaths and 360 injuries, an official from the highway traffic police force told Xinhua.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2025, the accidents also caused damage estimated at over 955 million kyats (about 454,761 U.S. dollars), he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 587 km Yangon-Mandalay expressway connects the country&#8217;s commercial city of Yangon and the second-largest city of Mandalay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 January 2026 A total of 64 people were killed and 341 injured in 180 traffic accidents on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11862,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11860\/revisions\/11862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}