A speeding Librando bus from Badian town on its way to Cebu City tipped over when it hit the center island of the highway in Minglanilla at past 4 am today. More than 20 passengers plus the driver were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. Passengers said the bus had been racing with a Ceres bus when it hit the center island at Barangay Poblacion at high speed. Before this, they said there were two other near-accidents involving this same bus: once when they were in Dumanjug and the second in the zigzag road of Barili. The bus driver, Marcelino Balingit, 50, said the bus experienced mechanical problems when they arrived in Minglanilla, causing him to lose control.
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