News update Philippines bus crash kills 15

The bus carrying mostly homebound factory workers was traveling at high speed on Saturday in Cebu province when it lost its brakes while maneuvering a downhill curve. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

FIFTEEN people were killed after the brakes on a speeding bus packed with passengers failed and the vehicle slammed into a concrete barrier in the central Philippines.
Another 48 people were injured, police said on Sunday.
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The bus carrying mostly homebound factory workers was traveling at high speed on Saturday in Cebu province when it lost its brakes while maneuvering a downhill curve. The driver crashed the vehicle into the cement barrier to avoid hitting a throng of pedestrians, police official Erson Digal said.

Most victims were killed inside the bus but five others died after being thrown from the vehicle on impact. The dead included a mother and son who died in an embrace, Mr Digal said.

'It happened so fast. Residents heard the crash then the yells of so many people calling for help,' Mr Digal told The Associated Press by telephone. The injured bus driver was taken into police custody for questioning after receiving treatment. -- AP