Six people were killed and five taken to hospital in a serious vehicular accident in Barangay Malasila, Makilala, North Cotabato on Thursday morning.
According to the report, the 10-wheeler truck with the license plate number GPP- 431 lost its brakes and plowed into a house, multi-cab, motorcycle and people in the vicinity.
One of the casualties was Jeremiah “Maya” Pamplona, a five-year-old and kindergarten pupil at Ireneo R. Castro Memorial Elementary School and a resident of Purok Crasher, Patulangon, Malasila, Makilala.
Classes are suspended at all levels in Malasila, Makilala, North Cotabato due to the said accident.
Rescuers dug up the truck’s sack-heel fertilizer load, to find several parts of the victims’ bodies that had been allegedly separated from their bodies.
The investigation is still ongoing, to find out what really happened.
Abner is an award-winning journalist. He received the prestigious 2015 Titus Brandsma Award for Community Communication in the Philippines and participated in the 2016 International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) of the United States of America, sponsored by the US Embassy in the Philippines. Founder of WATCH NORTH COTABATO, a media-citizens’ transparency group. He worked as a correspondent for the Philippine Daily Inquirer and CNN Philippines. His experience in broadcasting includes anchoring for Brigada News FM in Kidapawan and General Santos City and Brigada News TV. He anchors Tira Brigada via 105.1 Brigada News FM Manila, Mondays-Saturdays.