17th September, 2019
Fifteen people were killed when the truck they were travelling in fell off a cliff in the southern Philippines on Tuesday morning.
Police and local emergency officials said that the truck was travelling in the town of T’Boli in South Cotabato province, 1,030 kilometres south of Manila, when the accident occurred.
Emergency teams recovered 15 bodies from the site of the accident, Rolly Aquino, an officer with the provincial disaster risk reduction and management office, said in a video posted on Facebook.
He added that the total number of passengers in the truck was not yet confirmed, and some victims were also rushed to nearby hospitals.
“The cause of the accident has yet to be determined but most probably the driver lost control of the vehicle, or the brakes failed or there were problems with the tyres,” he said.
In the video, cadavers of the victims were lined along the road for identification, while rescuers continued to search for and retrieve victims from the accident site.