Onlookers gather next to the wreckage of a passenger minibus locally known as "jeepney" after it collided with a cargo truck early Wednesday Jan. 3, 2007, in Bauang, La Union province in northern Philippines, killing at least nine people and injuring some 17 others, police said. The minibus was overloaded with 30 passengers, mostly partygoers from a beach, when it lost control and hit the truck that was coming from the opposite direction along a highway about 240 kilometers (150 miles) north of Manila, police Superintendent Pedro Obaldo said.