Saturday, October 19, 2013

Philippine pile-up leaves 19 dead

MANILA: Nineteen folks were killed Associate in Nursingd dozens scraped Saturday in an exceedingly pile-up on an unlit road within the Philippines involving 3 buses and 4 trucks, police same.

Pictures of the accident in Atimonan, one hundred twenty kilometres (75 miles) southeast of Manila, ventilated on ABS-CBN tv showed a minimum of ten of the dead organized facet by facet on one lane of the road, coated solely by banana leaves.

One of the buses and one in every of the trucks had turned.


"We have recovered eighteen of the dead. we have a tendency to area unit within the method of convalescent the remaining one United Nations agency was fastened beneath one in every of the trucks," the Atimonan police commander, Chief Superintendent Jomar Yupio, told the station.

Atimonan police same in an exceedingly statement that the accident was caused by the
driver of a Manila-bound bus losing management of the vehicle before dawn.
As well as nineteen folks killed, 34 others, several of them bus passengers,
were scraped, it added.

The driver of the runaway bus, United Nations agency was unhurt, was placed beneath arrest, police same.

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