8 dead, 5 injured in Negros Oriental road mishap

BACOLOD CITY – Eight persons died while five  others were injured in a vehicular accident in Barangay Tiguib in Ayungon, Negros Oriental Saturday morning. Investigation showed that the vehicle, driven by Juan Maratas, 56, of Dumaguete City, was on its way to the Tiguib Public Cemetery when its brakes failed at a downhill stretch of the road