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Thirty-three people were killed and eight others injured when a passenger bus fell into a ravine in the northern Philippines before dawn Sunday, a report said.
The bus was negotiating a zigzagged portion of a highway in Tagkawayan, Quezon province, southeast of Manila, when the tragedy happened, the ABS-CBN news channel online news reported.
The bus lost its brakes and hit the highway's concrete railing before plunging into the nine-meter ravine, it quoted a survivor as saying.
Many of the victims were said pinned to death in the wreckage. Eighteen of the fatalities are men while 15 are women.
(Xinhua News Agency November 24, 2002)
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