Dimples Star Transport bus falls off Skyway Kills 3 people

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Two people were killed while 5 others were injured after a passenger bus fell off the Skyway at the South Luzon Expressway around 11 a.m. Tuesday.

The Dimples Star Transport bus with body number 7511 was on its way to Alabang when it fell off the Skyway southbound lane and crashed 40 feet below onto the service road right before the Sucat exit.

Bus driver Hustol Juven Pampilon died at exactly 12:20 p.m. while passenger Anthony Abarra, 21, of San Pedro, Laguna died at 2 p.m.

Rustico Jimenez, Parañaque Medical Center director, said Pampilon died of massive bleeding and trauma to the abdomen while Abarra died due to massive trauma to the head and a broken right hip.

Passenger Lorenzo Gabo remains in critical condition at the center. The three other passengers -- Rene Mendez, 40; Geraldo Fisco, 37; and Katherine Josol, 30 - are at South Superhighway Medical Center.