Farm hand killed in rice harvester accident
UMINGAN, Pangasinan: A farm hand was killed here on Friday the 13th in what police called a 'very rare' accident after being run over by a rice harvester in the farming village of Fulgosino here.Maj. Arnold Soriano, police chief, identified the victim as Zaldy Silapan, 54, a resident of Barangay Abot Molina here.Soriano said Silapan and another helper, Edwin Abuan, 28, were harvesting palay that day using the rice harvester machine driven by Noel Bandarlipe, 32, when the accident happened.A rice harvester is a mobile machine that combines harvesting, threshing, cleaning and bagging in one mech...
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