GMA News
3rd August, 2011
A Filipina graduate of the University of the Philippines in Los Baños, Nina Kristine Abad, had to have her right leg amputated after figuring in a bus accident in Cambodia on Monday.
In an interview with GMA News Online on Wednesday, Abad’s friend, Benjamin delos Santos, said the victim underwent surgery at the Calmette Hospital in Phnom Penh after the accident.
Delos Santos said Abad was on vacation in Cambodia when the bus she was riding in collided with a truck on Monday.
According to a report on news site Phnom Penh Post, the Kampuchea Angkor Express bus crashed in Peambro district of Phnom Penh at about 4:10 a.m. Monday.
The report said five passengers sustained serious injuries while 27 others had minor injuries.
Cambodian authorities are already looking into the accident to “see why it happened like that," Phnom Penh Post reported.
District police chief Seng Ponlok said the police are suspecting that the accident was caused by the drowsiness of the bus driver as the incident happened in Prey Veng province at dawn.
He said both vehicles in the accident have been taken to Peamro district police station for investigation.
“We will investigate this accident by cooperating with the bus company and we will also cooperate with them to look for the driver, who escaped after accident," the report quoted him as saying.
Support for Abad
Delos Santos said Abad’s relatives are on their way to Cambodia to give support to the victim.
The Philippine Embassy in Phnom Penh is also assisting the Abad, who is still at the hospital, Delos Santos said.
Delos Santos said the victim went to Vietnam to visit some friends and later decided to go Cambodia. Abad was on her way back to Vietnam when the accident happened.
Delos Santos said the victim works at a call center in Manila and is a member of the UPLB Development Communicators’ Society. — VVP, GMA News
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