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Freeman Region

5 die when car hits 2 tricycles in Eastern Samar

Miriam Garcia Desacada - The Freeman

CEBU, Philippines – Five persons died in a road accident along the Maharlika Highway in Sitio Kamaktas at Barangay San Miguel in Balangiga town, Eastern Samar last Saturday afternoon.

Chief Superintendent Cedrick Train, OIC director of the Police Regional Office-8, said the accident involved a Toyota Avanza car, without plate number, which lost its steering control and veered to the opposite lane, hitting two passenger-laden tricycles.

Police identified the fatalities as Renato Brieva, the driver of one of the tricycles, 9-year-old Rica Brieva, 20-year-old Angeline Brieva who died later in the hospital and Gorgonio Bajado, 86, and Joanna Bajado, 20.

Another of Renato’s passenger, Kizza Mae Placienta, was injured and is now confined at a hospital in Tacloban City.

Five passengers in the other tricycle, driven by Narciso Gade, sustained injuries and were rushed to the Alvino Duran Memorial Hospital in Balangiga. —Miriam Garcia Desacada

Five persons died in a road accident along the Maharlika Highway in Sitio Kamaktas at Barangay San Miguel in Balangiga town, eastern Samar last Saturday afternoon.

Chief Superintendent Cedrick Train, OIC director of the Police Regional Office-8, said the accident involved a Toyota Avanza car, without plate number, which lost its steering control and veered to the opposite lane, hitting two passenger-laden tricycles.

Police identified the fatalities as Renato Brieva, the driver of one of the tricycles, 9-year-old Rica Brieva, 20-year-old Angeline Brieva who died later in the hospital and Gorgonio Bajado, 86, and Joanna Bajado, 20.

Another of Renato’s passenger, Kizza Mae Placienta, was injured and is now confined at a hospital in Tacloban City.

Five passengers in the other tricycle, driven by Narciso Gade, sustained injuries and were rushed to the Alvino Duran Memorial Hospital in Balangiga.  (FREEMAN)

ALVINO DURAN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

ANGELINE BRIEVA

ANOTHER OF RENATO

BALANGIGA

BARANGAY SAN MIGUEL

CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT CEDRICK TRAIN

GORGONIO BAJADO

JOANNA BAJADO

KIZZA MAE PLACIENTA

MAHARLIKA HIGHWAY

NARCISO GADE

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