Kapamilya stars Denise Laurel and Carmi Martin expressed their shocked and sadness over the death of 14 college students who died in a vehicular accident in Tanay, Rizal on February 20.
Shocked by the incident, Laurel revealed she was the college students when their bus passed by the on-location taping of her afternoon series “The Better Half.”
She revealed through the screenshot from her iPhone:
I saw the kids in the bus accident before it happened they yelled and said hi to me while I was taping on the side of the road for the better half and I waved back.. I’m praying for all of em.. I was so shocked to see all the ambulances passing by.. let’s pray for all of them..
Equally, on her part, Martin also shared on her Facebook how those victims called her name when their bus passed by their taping in Tanay.
She wrote on her post:
I saw this kids before they died…. i was in Tanay this morning shooting for Better half and this blue bus passed by with kids sooo happy for their field trip. They even shouted Carmi… then minutes later… 14 of them were killed by an accident.
According to reports, the victims were heading to a medical and survival training for the National Service Training Program (NSTP) when the brakes of their bus failed while traversing a curved highway.