New Benguet town mayor survives accident

BAGUIO CITY — The new mayor of Buguias town in Benguet survived a vehicular accident on Wednesday (June 29) along the Halsema Highway on his way to the city.

The vehicle of Buguias Mayor Ruben Tinda-an fell at 2:30 p.m. into a garden terrace some 20 meters below the highway along Kilometer 57 in Atok town.

The Cordillera police said Tinda-an’s driver Roderick Segundo Loncio had dozed off. They were being treated at the Notre Dame Hospital here.  SFM/rga

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