Manila Bulletin

40 pigs dead in truck accident

By JOSEPH PEDRAJAS

Some 40 hogs were pinned to death while over a hundred others ran loose on a busy Navotas City highway a er a 14-wheel truck transporting them to a slaughterhouse figured in an accident on Tuesday night.

James Rumilla, one of residents who responded, said they immediately ran a er seeing the 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,” Rumilla told reporters in an interview.

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 cage then careened into the right side that le the driver to completely lose control of his truck that were bound for slaughter house in Kawit, Cavite.

Some 40 hogs died on site or were butchered by residents when they saw them already gasping for breath.

The price of each hog was pegged at P25,000.

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

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