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08-17-2007, 02:30 PM
Five passengers on a commuter bus were killed and three more were hospitalized for injuries in a serious traffic accident on the Monte Cristi-Santiago highway. The accident happened when steel plates came loose from a passing truck and hit the inter city transport bus. The Police named the dead as bus driver Virgilio Martinez Mezquita, 42, Elida Garcia, 44, Porfirio Gonell, 76, Silvio Betances, 36, and Gilberto Surcar Ramirez, 84. Injured with fractures are Jose Maria Villalona, 35, Berta Reynoso, and Cirile Flores, 53. Twenty people were on the bus. The truck driver, Raul Duverge Alcantara was arrested for investigations and is being held at the Villa Vasquez police station. The Mack truck belongs to a private company.

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