MANILA, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- Two men died and two men were injured after a wing van truck and a cement mixer truck collided in Iloilo province in the central Philippines, police said Wednesday.

Police said that a head-on crash, which happened around 11 a.m. local time on Tuesday in Leganes, a town north of the provincial capital, Iloilo City, killed the 45-year-old commercial truck helper and the 40-year-old driver of the concrete mixer truck.

The 41-year-old wing van truck driver and the helper of the cement mixer truck were also injured in the crash, police added.

A witness told police that the tire of the wing van truck exploded, sending it to swerve to the opposite lane before colliding with the oncoming concrete mixer truck. Enditem

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