Baby among three in family killed in LPT2 crash

DUNGUN: Three members of a family, including a two-month-old boy, were killed while two others were seriously injured after their car was involved in a crash at KM375.8 of the East Coast Expressway 2 (LPT 2) near Bukit Besi on Tuesday (July 25) evening.

The victims who died in the 6.25pm incident were Raja Nurhanani Nabila Raja Hussin, 23, her son Nik Muhammad Zayyan Irfan Zulhilmi Ismail, and her mother Noreha Mohamed, 53.

Dungun OCPD Supt Baharudin Abdullah said the incident happened when the car carrying the three victims along with two other family members went out of control and crashed into a sewer box on the left side of the road and overturned.

He said the family was on their way to send Raja Nurhanani Nabila home to her husband’s house at Kem Tentera Darat Batu 10, Kuantan from their village in Wakaf Baru, Kelantan.

“The other family members, Raja Nurhanani Nabila’s siblings Raja Haikal Najmi, 20, and Raja Nurhumaira Nadzirah, 17, were seriously injured and rushed to the emergency unit of Hospital Dungun before being transferred to Hospital Sultanah Nur Zahirah in Kuala Terengganu for treatment.

“The bodies of Noreha and Muhammad Zayyan Irfan were sent to Hospital Dungun while Raja Nurhanani Nabila’s body was sent to Hospital Hulu Terengganu for post-mortem,” he said on Wednesday (July 26).

Supt Baharudin said it was dark at the time of the incident and the road conditions were also wet after heavy rain.

The case is being investigated under Section 41(1) of the Road Transport Act 1987, he added. – Bernama