Nineteen dead in bus accident in Philippines

In central Philippines, nineteen people were killed and 21 others injured on Wednesday when a passenger bus lost control and plunged off a cliff, Channel News Asia reported.
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The police said the bus was coming to Manila. It skidded off a mountain road on Mindoro island late Tuesday. 

The accident occurred near Sablayan town, which is about 195 kilometres south of Manila.

Rescue workers were pulling the dead and injured from the vehicle, which landed at the bottom of a wooded ravine, the police added.

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