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LUCENA CITY, Philippines—A dump truck and a bus collided on the Maharlika Highway in Tiaong, Quezon, around midnight to midnight Wednesday, killing at least three people and wounding 24 others, police said Thursday.
Two of the fatalities were killed on the spot and the third one died Thursday morning while undergoing treatment for head and body injuries at Sts. Peter and Paul Hospital in the adjoining town of Candelaria, said a report from Senior Supt. Ronaldo Genaro Ylagan, the provincial police director.
She was identified in the report as Eden Montiano Sangrones. The two earlier fatalities were identified as Remedios Montiano Sangrones, 65, and Alyssa Rosanne Singayan, whose age had not been determined.
The fatalities were related to each other and lived in BF International, Las Piñas City, according to Supt. Laudemer Llaneta, Tiaong police chief.
“We have yet to establish their degree of relationship,” Llaneta said in a telephone interview.
Twenty four other passengers were injured when the JAM bus, which was bound for Lucena City and was driven by Jovanne Empestan, was rammed on the left side by a dump truck (UHX 995) as both vehicles were travelling through the village of Lalig in Tiaong around 11:50 p.m., said Ylagan.
The impact caused the passenger bus to turn turtle and skid 40 meters away from the point of collision, with all its passengers trapped inside, he said.
The injured were taken to the Liwag Medical Clinic in Tiaong, and the St. Peter and Paul Hospital and United Doctors Hospital in Candelaria.
Llaneta said the driver of the dump truck, Arwin Manalo, surrendered to the Tiaong police after the incident.
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