A passenger bus collided with a van carrying pilgrims to Christmas Mass at a church in the northern Philippines yesterday, leaving 20 people dead and more than two dozen injured, police said. Police chief superintendent Romulo Sapitula said all those killed in the pre-dawn collision in La Union province's Agoo town were in the van, known as jeepneys. Another 10 van passengers, along with the driver and 17 other occupants of the bus, were injured.

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