Twenty people, including children, were killed Tuesday in the southern Philippines when the flatbed truck they were riding in plummeted into a ravine, police said.<\/p>\n
The vehicle was bringing a group of people home from a trip to the beach when the driver lost control near the town of T\u00b4boli in the latest deadly crash on the nation\u00b4s dangerous roads.<\/p>\n
“Based on eyewitness accounts, the truck lost its brakes. We will conduct further investigations on the actual cause,”\u00a0 according to the T\u00b4boli town police investigator.<\/p>\n
Police initially put the death toll at 15, but doctors said five of the 19 people taken to hospital for treatment later died, Tabayan said, updating an earlier tally.<\/p>\n
The dead included children aged between one to six years old, with the driver among those injured, he added.<\/p>\n
The group had come from a swimming party at a beach in a neighbouring town and were on their way home when the accident occurred.<\/p>\n
Deadly road accidents are common in the Philippines, where inadequately maintained buses and poorly trained drivers form the backbone of land transport options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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