Seventeen people, including a Kenyan national, died when a passenger bus careered off a road on a “killer curve” and plunged down a mountain in the central Philippines, officials said Wednesday.
The bus was travelling in Hamtic municipality in Antique province when the crash happened Tuesday afternoon, provincial disaster agency head Roderick Train told AFP.
Four Kenyan nationals were among the passengers, who were mostly residents of Antique, Governor Rhodora Cadiao told local radio station DZRH.
“I call that place ‘killer curve’… it was already the second Ceres bus that fell off there,” she said, referring to the bus company.
“With the many number of deaths that road must be abandoned… and make another road to make that area safe.”
The heavily forested ravine was around 30 metres (100 feet) deep, Cadiao said.
Seven people, including one of the Kenyan nationals, were in critical condition in hospital and four others were stable, Train said, describing the section of road as “accident prone”.
The condition of the other two Kenyans is not clear.বিস্তারিত