ZAMBOANGA DEL SUR (Mindanao Examiner / 03 Feb) – At least 50 people have been confirmed killed and more than 40 seriously injured from a deadly fuel gas tanker explosion in the southern Philippines, officials said on Saturday.
Major General Raymundo Ferrer, commander of the Army’s 1st Infantry Division, said soldiers were still recovering body parts from a large area in the village of Lacupayan in Zamboanga del Sur’s Tigbao town where the truck transporting liquiefied gas overturned and exploded.
A passing provincial bus was totally destroyed, its passengers killed, many had been decapitated from the powerful blast, Ferre said.
“The death toll from have climbed to 50 and more than 40 are still in critical condition. Our soldiers are still combing the area for body parts,” Ferrer told the Mindanao Examiner.
Authorities on Friday placed the casualties as 28, but many of the injured remain in serious condition in hospitals in Pagadian City. Rescuers said most of those killed were mutilated by the powerful blast. (Mindanao Examiner)
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