Nine people including a baby were killed in Cagayan after a speeding van rammed into a house that was holding a vigil.
The vehicle lost control on a corner and smashed into a row of houses on the edge of a highway, police said, adding that the victims were gathered on the porch of a friend’s house after attending a wake in Lal-Lo town in Cagayan province on Saturday night when the accident happened.
“They were hanging out when the speeding van ploughed into them,” Lal-Lo police chief Jefferson Mukay said.
A parked sports utility vehicle and motorized tricycle were also hit and the driver of the van, a military reservist, and his passenger was taken to hospital in a critical condition.
Mukay said the driver would face multiple homicide and other charges.
