1 dead, 7 hurt in CamSur road accident

NAGA CITY, Philippines – A person was killed and seven bus passengers on their way home to Tacloban City in Leyte were injured in a road accident Wednesday night in Camarines Sur, police said.

Verni Locete, 34, of Sipocot, Camarines Sur, was declared dead on the spot after the motorcycle he was driving collided with an incoming bus on a curve of the Andaya Highway along Barangay (village) Gaongan, Sipocot, Camarines Sur at around 6:45 p.m., Police Officer 2 Ruel Lofrandado of the Sipocot Municipal Police said.

Lofrandado said seven of the passengers of Ultrabus, which came from Manila and was bound for Sorsogon en route to Samar, were injured when the bus fell into a gutter while trying to avoid the motorcycle.

The injured passengers – Leonida Carigutan, Ivy Marie Angog, Nieves Caceres, Melanie Arizgado, Visitacion Dagome, Catherine Resus and Lanie Casugao – who were on their way home to Tacloban City, in Leyte, after escaping the aftermath of the typhoon to temporarily reside in Manila in November last year, Lofrandado said.

The injured were immediately taken to the nearest hospital and treated, he said.

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