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8 INJURED AS BUS FALLS OFF RAVINE

VINCE JACOB VISAYA

TABUK CITY: A pickup fell off a ravine, causing injuries to eight occupants in Sitio Ileb, Nambaran in this city in Kalinga on Wednesday, August 3, before 6 p.m., police said on Thursday. Injured were driver Jayvee David Mangada, Santos Macasaddog, barangay (village) health worker Analiza Baldo and her one-year-old son Cymon, Lupong Tagapamayapa member Teresita Casibang, barangay nutrition scholar Mayla Tagacay, barangay health worker Monaliza Ramillosa and Pablito Diado.

The victims, all of San Francisco village in Rizal town in Kalinga, were on their way home aboard the pickup (SKW 454) after joining a team-building gathering at the Iloba Resort. A rock fell from the hills, scaring the driver and causing the pickup to fall off the ravine. Rescuers from the Kalinga provincial disaster risk reduction management office and Rizal town disaster team, police and fire workers responded and pulled the victims from the ravine. The victims were brought to the Kalinga Provincial Hospital and Juan Duyan District Hospital.

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