Bus kills boy on bike

A 13-YEAR-OLD boy died after the motorcycle he and his classmate were riding collided with a Ceres bus in Barangay Lagunde, Oslob town last Saturday afternoon.

PO1 Noel Mamale, police desk officer of Oslob police station, identified the boy as James Mendoza, Grade 7 student of St. Mary Academy of Oslob.

Mendoza and his classmate, 13-year-old Jomel Corona, were thrown off the motorcycle.

Mendoza landed in front of the bus, which ran over him. Corona was injured.

Mamale said the driver of the bus, Gaco Geromo, 43, of Negros Oriental, surrendered to the police and was detained at the Oslob police station pending the filing of charges.

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