A truck veered off a downhill mountain highway and plunged right into a ravine within the central Philippines, killing 9 staff on board, police stated.
The employees had been touring again to their workplace after delivering crude oil and different provides in a farming village in Bayawan metropolis in Negros Oriental province when their truck overshot the highway and fell right into a 30-meter- (98-foot-) deep ravine, police stated. It was loaded with 5 drums of crude oil.
The reason for the accident, which occurred shortly earlier than midday in good climate, was not instantly clear. The employees died whereas being dropped at a hospital, provincial police chief Col. Timmar Alam stated.
The Philippines has a disturbing document of lethal highway accidents, which are sometimes blamed on weak enforcement of visitors legal guidelines, reckless driving, rickety automobiles and insufficient highway security railings and indicators.
Revealed – February 04, 2026 07:08 pm IST