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Philippine bus crash kills 15, injures 48

FIFTEEN people were killed after the brakes on a speeding bus failed and the vehicle slammed into a concrete barrier in the central Philippines. Another 48 people were injured, police said yesterday.

The bus carrying mostly home-bound factory workers was traveling at high speed on Saturday in Cebu province when it lost its brakes while maneuvering a downhill curve. The driver crashed the vehicle into the cement barrier to avoid hitting a throng of pedestrians, police official Erson Digal said.

Most victims were killed inside the bus but five others died after being thrown from the vehicle on impact. The dead included a mother and son who died in an embrace, Digal said.

"It happened so fast. Residents heard the crash then the yells of so many people calling for help," Digal said by telephone.

The injured bus driver was taken in for questioning after being treated.

Saturday's crash in Toledo city was the second deadly bus accident in recent weeks in the area. A bus plunged into a ravine off a mountain road in Balamban town, near Toledo, killing 21 people last month.





 

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