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PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Aug 22, 2023 (AFP) – Six children and two adults were suspended inside a cable car dangling over a deep valley in Pakistan for several hours on Tuesday, as a military helicopter hovered nearby. The children were using the chairlift to cross the valley to get to school when a cable broke at a height of up to 1,200 feet (about 365 metres) midway through its journey in a remote, mountainous part of […]
(Eagle News) — At least 19 people died, while 22 others were seriously injured after a truck they were riding in fell into a 20-meter deep ravine in Apayao province on Thursday night, Oct. 31. The truck driver was identified as Merlito Gannaban. The truck was on its way to Conner town to get some rice planting materials to be provided by the government. It had about 44 people on board, aside from the […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered a drug test on the driver of the bus that fell off a ravine in Carranglan, Nueva Ecija on Tuesday, killing more than 30 people. Atty. Aileen Lizada, Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board spokesperson, said Duterte gave the order because he wanted to know if Rolando Mangaoang was under the influence of drugs before the Leomarick bus with plate number AVZ-757 that he was driving fell off a cliff in […]
(Agence France Presse) — The death toll from a bus that plunged into a ravine in Nueva Ecija rose to 31 with signs that overloading contributed to the crash, a police official said Wednesday. The accident, which saw the bus come off a winding road to fall 24 meters (80 feet) into a ravine in the upland province on Tuesday, also left 46 injured with four still in a critical condition, said Senior […]
