Police identified two of the fatalities as Ronnie Javarro, a bus conductor, and Nemia Paceno, a pharmacy student while the two other fatalities remain unidentified as of this writing.
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Initially, Senior Insp. Conrado Rances, chief of E.B.
Investigation showed that a Ceres Liner bus with body number 5126 bound for Escalante City from Bacolod City, driven by Leo Ciocon, 40, attempted to overtake another vehicle, but failed, causing the bus to overturn in the middle of the road.
Siocon and his fare collector, Shabiros Cuervo, are now detained at the EB Magalona Police Station, pending further investigation of the vehicular accident.
Meanwhile, Jade Marquez Seballos, Legal and Media Relations Manager of Vallacar Transit, said in a press statement that the company will extend immediate assistance to the families of the victims, including those injured.
But before it could do so, the bus collided with another Ceres bus speeding from the opposite direction and bound for Bacolod City, as stated by Bances.
Several vehicular accidents have taken place at the national highway in Barangay Santo Niño and the nearby Barangay San Jose in EB Magalona. Nino, E.B. Magalona, Negros Occidental Wednesday morning.
Police said four people died and more than 30 passengers were wounded in the accident.
The accident triggered heavy traffic in the area for two hours.
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A dispensary pupil and 3 other travellers kicked the bucket, while you are 46 were really hurt if a pair of Ceres Liner boxes along the Vallacar Transit Inc. site-seeing in opposite steps, strike one other for the nationally recognized motorway of Brgy.
