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Boulder in Jagna crushes dump truck, 2 die
« on: June 01, 2010, 08:51:31 PM »
BY JUNE S. BLANCO

The only safe place in Wednesday's dump truck tragedy in Balili, Jagna was pure and simple elsewhere.

Provincial Motor Pool casual driver Rodrigo Sotomayor Jr., 45, of Catigbian town and Tagbilaran City, and first year high school entrant Raymond James Borja, 13, of Jagna - a scholar at that - shared the same fate as a boulder rampaged onto the dump truck cab they were in while it was being loaded with limestone.

Sotomayor was part of the fleet of the Provincial Engineer's Office (PEO) that had widened the road that traverses barangays Malbog, Balili, Buyog and onwards - and used the excess materials to regravel other provincial roads.

Far from home, the fleet members - drivers and heavy equipment operators - usually look for boarding houses near their ongoing projects. Sotomayor found his in the home of casual laborer Armando Borja of Tagbilaran City but whose wife hails from the town.

Soon, Sotomayor got fond of the Borja children and vice versa. The children have even begun calling him "Papa Rudy."

The afternoon of that fateful day was quite hot and Armando had cautioned his son against going with Sotomayor, but he had insisted on going with his "Papa Rudy."

Soon, Sotomayor had positioned the dump truck a few meters away from a sloping limestone formation as the payloader loaded his dump box with the material.
     
All of a sudden, however, a boulder from the limestone sloping wall dislodged, rolled down, hit a protruding formation that catapulted the boulder forward so that it fell right on top of the dump truck cab, crushing it and its hapless driver and passenger to death.

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Re: Boulder in Jagna crushes dump truck, 2 die
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2010, 10:25:03 AM »
Lord have mercy, what a tragic accident, it's really very sad to lose
   their lives in a freak way.

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Re: Boulder in Jagna crushes dump truck, 2 die
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2010, 04:43:29 PM »
intawn pod no? kalooy pod....

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