Twenty persons, the majority of whom were students from Cebu on their way to a leadership training camp at the Don Bosco Retreat House in Mambukal Murcia, were injured 11:15 a.m. Saturday when the mini-bus they were riding in fell into a ravine in Don Salvador Benedicto town,Negros Occidental.
Luckily, the bus fall about 15 meters down a ravine after overshooting a curve in the road at Kilometer 41, Purok Talos, Barangay Igmayaan, was stopped when it hit a big stone, Board Member Nehemias de la Cruz said.
Nineteen of those injured, two of whom were nuns, were brought to Bacolod hospitals. Seventeen were treated as out patients for minor wounds, while two others were kept overnight for observation but were released yesterday, Angie Tesaluna of the Don Bosco Retreat House said.
She said the bus passengers from the Don Bosco Youth Center of the Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Cebu were already at the Don Bosco Retreat House in Murcia yesterday afternoon.
The driver of the mini bus owned by the Don Bosco Technical Institute in Victorias, Francis Arinday Ledesma, 29, of Canetown Subdivision, Victorias, sustained minor injuries on the forehead and was detained at the DSB police station, PO3 Edgardo Corteza of the DSB police station said.
The mini bus picked up the students from Cebu at the San Carlos port to bring them to a youth camp in Murcia, Corteza said.
Corteza said drivers are warned to drive slowly when maneuvering the winding roads of DSB to avoid accidents.
Board Member de la Cruz said it appeared that the driver was unfamiliar with the terrain.
Corteza said among those injured were John Michael Torrefiel, 16, Edna Balbuena, 26, Ralf Gerald Padilla, 20, Noel Molinao, 17, James Gallarde, 18, Judeen Mahipos, 20, Genette Solomon, 26, Lewbi Laborte, 18;
Maria Teresa Pepino, 19, Chonafer Barbadillo, 21, Shalomel Tundag, 15, Jhonny Lanibon, 20, Hazel Yap, 18, Catherine Ann Ergina, 15, Iris Barbadillo, 19, Phi Chanteuss Ylaya, 20, Patlyn Antoniette Pañares, 22, Eduardo Impelis, 20 and Niño Bautista, 20.*CPG back
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