BACOLOD City – A senior citizen died in a road mishap in Barangay Pilar, Hinigaran, Negros Occidental.
The fatality was identified as 89-year-old resident Pedro Baliwas, a police report showed.
According to police investigators, Baliwas was sleeping beside a sugarcane plantation covered with leaves when a truck driven by 37-year-old Ronnie Salazar of Barangay Camalobalo, Hinigaran crashed against him around 10:30 a.m. on Nov. 8.
Salazar was detained in the lockup facility of the Hinigaran municipal police station./PN
