Senior Inspector Robert de Guzman, Carranglan town police chief, said in a phone interview that 24 people died on the spot after a Leomarick Trans bus fell into a ravine in Capintalan village in Carranglan, Nueva Ecija, around 11 am Tuesday. Senior Superintendent Antonio Yarra, Nueva Ecija police director, told Rappler that as of 7 am on Wednesday, 31 passengers were already confirmed dead while 46 others were still being treated in different hospitals in Nueva Ecija and Nueva Vizcaya. Carranglan police chief Robert de Guzman said the bus from northern Isabela province was on its way to Ilocos Sur, a tobacco- and rice-growing region also in the mountainous northern Philippines, when it crashed shortly before noon in Nueva Ecija, about 124 miles north of Manila.
At least 24 people are dead after a Leomarick Trans bus falls into a ravine in the Philippines province of Nueva Ecija.