COTABATO CITY — A speeding truck rammed three grade schoolgirls walking along a stretch of a highway in Barangay Cayaga in San Fernando, Bukidnon on Tuesday, killing all of them instantly.
Senior officials of the Bukidnon Provincial Police Office told reporters on Wednesday that truck driver Reynaldo Algame Camaso first sped away but surrendered eventually several hours later to the San Fernando Municipal Police Station.
Major Christian D. Serdeña, San Fernando municipal police chief, said Mr. Camaso is now detained and that they have compelled the owner of the truck to reach out to the families of the three fatalities and provide them with essential support needed for their burials.
Mr. Serdeña said the Mitsubishi Fuso truck, bearing license plates RJT 835, is now in their custody.
Witnesses told police investigators who responded to the incident that the victims were on their way to the Cayaga Elementary School when they were hit by the truck, headed in the same direction, at the highway in Purol 2-B in Barangay Cayaga. — John Felix M. Unson