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The bus, carrying 53 passengers, was travelling west from Iloilo City to San Jose de Buenavista in Antique province when it crashed into a concrete road barrier before plunging into a ravine shortly before 5 p.m. local time on Tuesday in Hamtic town.
The deaths include the bus driver and his collector, Xinhua news agency reported, citing local news web ABS-CBN.
Quoting the Antique provincial government, Panay News, a regional newspaper, reported that two critically wounded passengers, including a male from Kenya, were taken to a hospital in Iloilo City for treatment.
Emergency workers are rescuing the survivors and retrieving the bodies of the people in the ravine.
–Ajit Weekly News
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