Bus crash in Philippines kills 27

The bus was descending a steep road about 10 km outside the city of Baguio when it slammed into a boulder and flipped over, Noe Wong, chief superintendent of the Cordillera region, told reporters.

"I am considering the accident as the bloodiest car accident this year," Tuba police chief Johnny Gaspar said, adding the latest was the seventh in the area since January.

After several accidents in recent years along the same highway, named after late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, local Ibaloi tribesmen butchered native pigs and performed a dance last year to ward off bad spirits.