Barili mishap claims two more

The Aug. 18 dump truck accident in Barili town, southwestern Cebu, that killed 10 persons claimed two more lives.

Sixteen-year-old Jesse Diagbel died at 10:03 p.m. last Thursday in the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu City.

Seventy-five-year-old Pedro Diagbel also died last week.

Jesse was confined for a week before he died. He was the third casualty to die in the hospital.

Staff of Sacred Heart Funeral Homes took Diagbel’s body, said Haidee Alimoren of the hospital’s information desk.

The boy died of multiple fractures, Alimoren said. Relatives brought his body back to Barili last Friday.

Five of the injured were released from the hospital yesterday. Seven are still confined.

Meanwhile, Alwin Bayno, the driver of the dump truck that turned over, was bailed out of jail, said Barili Mayor Teresito Mariñas.

Bayno did not return to work,   Mariñas said.

“He’s still at rest because the incident is still hot,”  Mariñas said.

The Barili municipality extended P3,000 in financial assistance to the elder Diagbel before he died.

Rep. Pablo John Garcia of Cebu’s 3rd district shouldered his burial costs.

Barili Vice Mayor Marlon Garcia told CDN they might send someone to hand carry to the Office of the Ombudsman in the Visayas a resolution calling on the Cebu Provincial Board to investigate the incident.

The Barili Municipal Council passed a resolution in last week’s session urging the PB and Office of the Ombudsman in the Visayas to probe the incident.

Barili Councilor Hector Celis sponsored the resolution, the mayor said. Rhea Ruth V. Rosell and Carmel Loise Matus, Correspondents