ZAMBOANGA CITY, March 29 -- Twin sisters died while 26 others, all workers of a canning factory, were injured when the company truck they were riding overturned along the national highway in this city early Wednesday, a police official said.

Lt. Col. Paul Andrew Cortes, city police information officer, said the vehicular accident occurred in Barangay Sangali, 25 km. east of the city proper, at about 5 a.m. Wednesday.

Cortes said the victims were aboard a truck of the Aquatic Food Manufacturing Corp. that overturned and crashed on a house as it negotiated a descending curve in the village.

"The driver lost control of the steering wheel due to brake malfunction," Cortes said, adding that the house was damaged.

One of the two fatalities ...