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Rescuers and medics remove a passenger after pulling him from the wreckage of a bus which plunged off a Philippine mountain road. AP Photo
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40 killed in Philippines bus crash

Ten people pulled alive from wreckage.
11.30am, 18 Aug 2010
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AT LEAST 40 PEOPLE were killed when a bus plunged into a ravine in the Benguet province of northern Philippines today.

Forty-seven passengers were on board the bus, and survivors were pulled from the wreck alive including one 10-year-0ld boy.

The bus conductor managed to escape the crash by leaping from the vehicle as it left the road. He said the brakes failed as the bus negotiated the windy mountain roads.

He said the driver had attempted to avoid the ravine by striking a lamp into a mango tree, but missed.

Police investigating the accident say they may bring charges of reckless imprudence causing multiple homicides and serious injuries against both the driver and the conductor.

Photos of the crash site:

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  • Philippines Bus Crash

    Rescuers and paramedics tend to passenger victims after a passenger bus negotiating a downhill curve on Wednesday Aug.18, 2010 plunged off a Philippine mountain highway into a 100-foot (30-meter) ravine in Tuba township, Benguet province in northern Philippines.Source: AP Photo/Jayjay Landingin

  • Philippines Bus Crash

    Rescuers and paramedics tend to passenger victims after a passenger bus negotiating a downhill curve on Wednesday Aug.18, 2010 plunged off a Philippine mountain highway into a 100-foot (30-meter) ravine in Tuba township, Benguet province in northern Philippines.Source: AP Photo/Jayjay Landingin

  • Philippines Bus Crash

    Rescuers and paramedics pull out passenger victims from the wreckage.Source: AP Photo

  • Philippines Bus Crash

    Source: AP Photo

  • Philippines Bus Crash

    A relative cries as she walks past bodies of victims of the crash.Source: AP Photo

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