6 Pinoys killed in bus crash in Japan
11/29/2010Six Filipino factory workers — three men and three women — were killed and 22 others were injured in a road accident yesterday in western Japan, the Department of Foreign Affairs said.
The Filipinos died when their bus collided with a trailer truck at an intersection in Kameyama, Mie prefecture while on their way to a factory manufacturing flat-screen televisions for Japanese electronics firm Sharp.
Twenty other Filipino workers, including one who had obtained Japanese nationality, and two Japanese — the drivers of the bus and the trailer truck — were injured, reports said.
Philippine Consul General Maria Lourdes Ramiro-Lopez said five of the Filipinos died immediately, while the other died on the way to the hospital.
Reports said the fatalities are in their 20s and 30s.
Lopez said 10 of the 20 injured Filipinos are in serious condition..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20101129hed6.html
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