One dead, 2 hurt in LPG tanker blast in Vizcaya

SOLANO, Nueva Vizcaya , Philippines  – One person died and two others were injured as a gas tanker exploded after its driver lost control of it following a collision with a motorcycle here Friday. 

Police identified the fatality as motorcycle driver James Doneda Jr., of Bagabag town here, while the tanker’s driver Aristoteles Galas, of Antipolo City, and his helper Romeo Satorre, 41, of Muntinlupa, are now being treated for injuries at the town’s PLT hospital. 

Reports said the tanker, owned by Dorado Resources Corp., was on its way back to Manila after delivering its cargo of liquid carbon dioxide in Ilagan, Isabela, when it overtook a slow moving vehicle, not taking notice of the approaching motorcycle along the national highway in Barangay Bascaran here about 8 p.m. Friday.      – Charlie Lagasca