2 dead, 7 hurt in Cavite road accidents

Arnell Ozaeta, ABS-CBN News Southern Tagalog

Posted at Jun 12 2016 06:11 PM
CAVITE - Two drivers were killed while seven others were hurt in separate vehicular
accidents in Cavite early Sunday morning, police said.
Authorities identified the fatalities as Robenson Cablino, 38, a resident of San Nicolas,
Gapan, Nueva Ecija; and Primitivo Cadelina, a resident of Fort Bonifacio, Makati City.
Injured in the accident were Alex Andren, 40; Aljur Andren, 6; Perlinda Sumabong, 35;
Mark Anthony Ebonia, 26; Antonio Ebonia, 60; Oliver Magbutay, 59; and Lisa TubongBayan, 26.
According to a report, Cablino was driving a truck along the highway of Barangay Hugo
in Trece Martirez when his brakes malfunctioned and collided with a van around 2 a.m.
Police said Cablino jumped off his vehicle before the collision but he was ran over by his
own vehicle, causing his death.
Seven passengers of the van were rushed to MV Santiago Hospital for treatment.
Meanwhile, in General Trias, jeepney driver Cadelina was cruising along the Epza
Bacao Diversion Road in Barangay Bacao-2, when his vehicle hit a trailer truck early
Sunday morning.
Police said the trailer truck, driven by Vincent Rojas, was about to enter the Cavite
Export Processing Zone Authority when Cadelina lost control of the wheel and collided
with the truck.
Cadelina was rushed to the hospital but was declared dead on arrival at the emergency
room by attending physicians.
Rojas is now under the custody of General Trias police for investigation.

Cebu Pacifics aircraft catches fire on Mactan

runway
One passenger slightly hurt
By: Victor Silva - @inquirerdotnet
Inquirer Visayas / 10:01 PM September
26, 2016

CEBU CITY One of Cebu Pacifics

(CEB) propeller-type planes caught fire
after aborting take-off at 6:10 p.m. Monday.
Lawyer JR Mantaring, CEB vice president
for corporate affairs, said in an advisory
that Flight DG6577 from Cebu to Tacloban
aborted its take-off due to a fluctuating oil
indication in one of its engines.
While taxiing after aborting take off, the aircraft encountered a wheel fire and the crew
initiated an immediate evacuation of the passengers, he said.
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Volunteers of the Mactan Cebu International Airport Authority (MCIAA) fire and rescue
department and the Emergency Rescue Unit Foundation (ERUF) based in Lapu-Lapu
City responded to the fire.
Fire trucks arrived on site at 7:36 p.m. and had the fire under control by 7:54 p.m.
Mantaring said all 67 passengers and crew were safely evacuated with one reported
minor injury. The flight was scheduled to leave for Tacloban at 6:10 PM.
Airport, Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) and CEB on-ground personnel
provided all assistance to the affected passengers.
CAAP aircraft accident inspectors are now investigating the cause of the fire. SFM

2 dead, 55 rescued as ship sinks off Masbate

(6th UPDATE) Rescue operations continue, however, to save possibly undocumented
passengers of MV Our Lady of Mt Carmel

MANILA,
Philippines (6th

UPDATE) Less than 12 hours after a ship sank off Burias Island, Masbate, authorities
have rescued all 55 surviving, documented passengers of MV Our Lady of Mt Carmel, a
local disaster official said Friday, June 14.
Two other passengers died after the ship sank at around 5:30 am on Friday.
This means authorities have finished search and rescue operations for all 57
documented passengers.
Regional Office of Civil Defense director Bernardo Alejandro IV, however, said
authorities will continue rescue operations. In an interview on ANC, Alejandro said some
passengers might have been undocumented.
Officials have not determined the cause of the incident.
It took only a minute for the ship to sink, ship captain Lauro Mateo told GMA News.
Dire-diretso na yon. Hindi ko na ma-explain kung anong nangyari, the captain said. (It
sank very quickly. I couldn't explain what happened.)
'It happened so quickly'
Officials have not determined the cause of the incident.
Mateo said it was unlikely the ship was overloaded.
Raffy Alejandro, director of the Office of Civil Defense in Bicol, supported the claim that
the ship was notoverloaded. He explained the ship, after all, made the journey of about

4 hours between the two major provinces of Albay and Masbate, more than 300
kilometers southeast of Manila.
Belisario added the ship could carry a maximum of 212 passengers.
Alejandro said the cause of the sinking had not yet been determined. But the ship's
captain, who was among those rescued, reported the vessel may have been
unbalanced by two passenger buses and a large truck it was carrying.
"He said it happened so quickly. It just went down in the darkness," Alejandro said,
adding the waters and weather were calm.
Ship owner Max Culiapsy, in a GMA News TV interview, downplayed the possibility that
the ship got unbalanced.
The vessel was a roll-on, roll-off ferry commonly used in the Philippines to transport
people, vehicles and cargo throughout the archipelago of more than 7,100 islands.
Sea accidents common
Sea accidents are common in the Philippines due to poor safety standards and
overloading.
The world's deadliest peacetime maritime disaster occurred near Manila in 1987 when a
ferry laden with Christmas holidaymakers collided with a small oil tanker, killing more
than 4,000 people.
In 2008, a huge ferry capsized during a typhoon off the central island of Sibuyan,
leaving almost 800 dead.
Alejandro expressed hope that the death toll from Friday's accident would not rise
drastically, partly because the captain said most passengers were wearing life jackets.
"We expect many more will be rescued. We were able to respond quickly," he said.
with reports from Agence France-Presse/Rappler.com