Hogs run loose on Navotas highway, end up slaughtered

than a hundred hogs ran loose on a busy Navotas City highway prompting residents to hurry out of their homes Tuesday evening to stop the hogs from escaping after the truck transporting them figured in an accident.

James Rumilla, one of the dozens of men who responded, said they immediately ran after seeing the 14wheeler truck fall on its side at the corner of C-3 and R-10 roads.

“Pagkabagsak, bagsakan agad yung mga baboy. Syempre tumakbo agad kami para umalalay sa driver, eh kawawa naman kung papabayaan, tatakbo yung mga baboy (Right after the truck fell, the hogs managed to get out. Of course, we ran towards the truck to help the driver. We could not let the hogs run loose),” Rumilla told reporters.

The driver of the truck said they were turning towards R-10, an accident-prone area, when the vehicle lost its balance.

Around 160 hogs inside the truck gathered on the right side of the vehicle that left the driver to completely lose control of his truck.

Some 40 hogs, supposedly bound for a slaughterhouse in Kawit, Cavite, were pinned to death on the highway. Some were butchered by residents when they saw the pigs in near death. The price of each hog is estimated at R25,000.

Videos on social media showed residents slaughtering the hogs that died on the spot. Some even took whole hogs covered with mud and carted them away on their tricycles or pedicabs.