Five dead in new Philippine bus crash

Five people have been killed in a bus crash in the northern Philippines, the second deadly bus accident in two days, authorities said Sunday.

February 09, 2014





MANILA — Five people have been killed in a bus crash in the northern Philippines, the second deadly bus accident in two days, authorities said Sunday. The bus was carrying more than 30 people when its brakes malfunctioned and it toppled into a ditch in the northern province of Abra Saturday, police said. One person died on the spot and four others in hospital, said regional military spokesman Superintendent Davy Vicente Limmong. Twenty-eight others were injured in the crash, which came a day after a tourist bus plunged into a deep ravine in a remote northern mountain pass on Friday. Fourteen people were killed in that accident, including a Canadian man and Dutch woman. The bus which crashed Friday was headed to the mountain town of Bontoc, a popular tourist jumping-off point to a rustic mountain town famed for hanging coffins embedded on the sides of a cliff. — AP


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