Road tragedy: The body of one of the accident victims being transported in Boljoon town. — AP
MANILA: A truck carrying more than two dozen villagers, mostly ecstatic grade schoolers on their way to a school festival, lost control on a downhill road and flipped on its side, leaving eight students and an adult companion dead in the central Philippines, police said.
Police investigator Nelson Saquibal said 16 others, including the driver, were brought to a hospital after the accident in Boljoon town in Cebu province yesterday.
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