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John Unson - Philstar.com
April 5, 2026 | 11:17am
Four of the 33 passengers of the truck that figured in an accident on Saturday, April 4, 2026, in Aleosan, Cotabato succumbed instantly to serious injuries.
Philstar.com / John Unson
COTABATO CITY, Philippines — Three Moro women and a child died from injuries when the truck they were riding, along with more than 20 others, flipped, rolled over and landed on its side at a stretch of a highway in Barangay San Mateo in Aleosan town in Cotabato province on Saturday, April 4.
Angela Kamensa, 21, Lukaya Adil, 43, Sambabay Andatuan, 50, and the three-year-old boy, Arshahid Adzal were declared dead on arrival by physicians in a hospital where emergency responders brought them for treatment.
The accident left 29 others, all Moro Maguindanaons, injured, according to barangay officials and employees of the Aleosan Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office.
Local executives in Aleosan, one of the 17 towns in Cotabato, and investigators from the municipal police, told reporters on Sunday that the victims were from the nearby Malidegao, a Bangsamoro town in the Special Geographic Area in the province, on their way to Cotabato City when they figured in the accident.
Officials of the Aleosan Municipal Police Station said the 33 accident victims were together in the cargo deck of a white Isuzu Elf truck, with license plates GEK 349, that veered towards the opposite lane of the highway in Barangay San Mateo, flipped and rolled over when its driver, the 55-year-old Tatuan Bolingkig Andatuan, tried to overtake a motorcycle a few meters ahead.
The truck also reportedly hit the side of a blue pickup-type multicab, driven by Diosdado Iligan Siano, 57, bearing license plates Kae 9974, then approaching from the opposite direction of the route.
All of the truck's more than 30 passengers were thrown off as it flipped and rolled over the concrete pavement, causing them serious injuries.
The four accident fatalities sustained fractures and serious head injuries that caused their immediate demise, according to Aleosan local government emergency responders.
