Regional police chief Ager Ontog says the government-owned
dump truck was taking mourners to a funeral at a cemetery in Cebu province’s
Barili township on Thursday.
Local reports say the truck overturned and crushed some of
the victims.
It was the third major road accident in Cebu with mass
casualties this year.
At least 15 died when their bus slammed into a concrete
barrier in July in Toledo city. A month earlier, a bus rented by Iranian
medical students fell into a ravine in Balamban township, killing 21 people.
Brake failures were also blamed for those accidents.