<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>At least 29 persons were killed on Tuesday when a passenger bus plunged off a cliff in Antique province in central Philippines, local authorities said.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The bus, carrying 53 passengers, was traveling west from Iloilo City to San Jose de Buenavista in Antique province when it crashed into a concrete road barrier before plunging into a ravine of 15-meter depth around 4:30 p.m. local time in Hamtic town.</div><div><br></div><div>Junlee Saylo, head of the antique provincial information office, told a radio interview that 25 died on the spot and four others died at a local hospital.</div><div><br></div><div>The deaths include the bus driver and his collector, local news web ABS-CBN reported.</div><div><br></div><div>Quoting the Antique provincial government, Panay News, a regional newspaper, reported that two critically wounded passengers, including a male from Kenya, were taken to a hospital in Iloilo City for treatment.</div><div><br></div><div>Emergency workers have been rescuing the survivors and retrieving the bodies of the people in the ravine. - XINHUA</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>