At least 27 killed in Philippnes tanker truck blast

At least 27 people were killed and 13 others injured when a tanker truck exploded on a mountain road in the southern Philippines, police said today.

The truck was negotiating a downhill section of the road in Tigbao and apparently lost its brakes, slammed into the side of a mountain and overturned, killing the driver, said Senior Superintendent Ramon Ochotorena, police chief of Zamboanga del Sur province.