27 injured as bus falls into ravine in Quezon

MANILA, Philippines (Xinhua) - Twenty-seven people, including the bus driver, were injured after a bus fell into a 20-feet ravine midnight in Quezon, local media reported today.

The injured people were rushed to a nearby hospital. The bus driver is in critical condition, the report said.  

The accident happened along the Quirino Highway in Tagkawayan, a first class municipality in Quezon province, when the Manila- bound bus driven by a certain Gonzalo Joble went out of control after the bus driver avoided a collision with an incoming bus.