33 hybrid hogs dead in Sarangani highway accident
COTABATO CITY — More than 30 pigs died instantly after the truck transporting the livestock to Davao City flipped and rolled over on a stretch of highway in Barangay Nagpan, Malungon town, Sarangani province, on Tuesday morning, April 14.
Officials of the Sarangani Provincial Police Office told reporters on Tuesday afternoon that Carlo Padohinog Jr., the driver of the truck carrying 150 hogs bound for Davao City, lost control of the vehicle due to a mechanical problem, causing it to flip, roll over and land on its side along a stretch of highway in Sitio San Roque, Barangay Nagpan.
Barangay officials and investigators from the Malungon Municipal Police Station separately confirmed that 33 of the 150 hogs that Padohinog and his helper were set to deliver to merchants in Davao City were killed in the road mishap.
Padohinog told reporters that the brake system of the truck he was driving malfunctioned while he was maneuvering through an uphill stretch of the General Santos–Davao Highway in Sitio San Roque, Barangay Nagpan, causing the accident.
Police investigators estimated at no less than P600,000 the value of the hybrid pigs that perished in what they described as a peculiar and uncommon highway accident.
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