2 dead, 13 injured in Bicol road mishap

LEGAZPI CITY — Two died and 13 others were injured when two passenger buses collided along the Maharlika Highway in Barangay Maslong, Labo town in Camarines Norte last Friday.

Senior Superintendent Efren Yebra, Camarines Norte police provincial director, said an Isarog Line Express bus was enroute to Naga City from Paracale town in Camarines Norte when it collided with a Capalonga Transit bus enroute to Capalonga, Camarines Norte from Daet town.

Twenty-seven Catholic priests, who just attended the anniversary celebration of the first catholic priest in the Bicol Region in Paracale, were on board the Isarog Line bus. None of them were injured.

Meanwhile, the two fatalities from Capalonga Transit were identified as Ireneo Barrrameda, 75; and Ma. Linda Abogado, 21, both from Barangay Awitan in Daet, Camarines. — Celso Amo