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17 die as bus plunges off Philippine highway
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A passenger bus plunged off a wet, elevated highway in suburban Manila and fell onto a van passing below yesterday morning, killing at least 17 people and injuring some 16 others, police, hospital and mortuary staff said.
TV footage showed a number of bodies strewn around the bus wreckage with police officers nearby. The van was an unrecognizable pile of smashed white metal.
The bus veered off the elevated road known as the Skyway and crashed onto the van 9.6 meters below in suburban Paranaque city at dawn, police Superintendent Elizabeth Velasquez said.
It wasn’t clear what caused the accident but the highway was wet, said Ivy Vidal, a spokeswoman from Skyway Operations and Maintenance Corp.
Irene Sisperes, a motorist who witnessed the accident, said she was driving with her daughter at 80 kilometers per hour when the bus overtook her car. She estimated the bus was traveling around 100 kilometers per hour.
She said it was still dark and it was raining when the accident happened.
“After a few meters, I saw the bus fall and I shouted, ‘The bus fell, the bus fell,’” she told DZMM radio, adding there were no other cars nearby.
Sisperes said she saw the damaged railing of the highway and reported the incident at the toll gate.
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