KUALA LUMPUR: MIC vice-president Datuk T. Murugiah was injured in a road accident on the North-South Expressway near the Bangi interchange on Sunday (June 22). In the incident at about 8.30pm, the former Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department was on his way home after officiating the Bakri MIC Division annual general meeting in Johor. According...
PETALING JAYA: Lying on a hospital bed, Mohd Amirul Fadhil Zulkifle's voice cracked as he tearfully apologised. "I'm so sorry to all the students and families involved. The brakes suddenly stopped working," said the 39-year-old bus driver, according to Sinar Harian. His words carried the weight of the tragic deaths of 15 Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI)...
GERIK: "I woke up when I heard the driver shouting angrily. I don't know what he was angry at but the bus started swaying from side to side and then overturned." This is what Farhana Ab Aziz remembered after she survived the horrific accident where 15 Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI) students were killed at KM53...
PETALING JAYA: Anthony Loke says that the Land Public Transport Agency (Apad) has issued a show-cause letter to the bus operator involved in the tragic bus crash in Gerik. "The Road Transport Department (JPJ) is undertaking safety inspections and audits on the bus and the company, in compliance with the Road Transport Act and the Land...
IPOH: A policeman has been killed while on his way home to Kedah after the motorcycle he was riding skidded at KM253.7 of the North-South Expressway (NSE) northbound near Kuala Kangsar. Perak police chief Datuk Noor Hisam Nordin said in the 7.24pm incident on Thursday (June 5), the victim Shamsul Ishak, 58, sustained injuries to his...
BUKIT MERTAJAM: A surveyor was killed after reportedly falling from the eighth floor of a building - an estimated height of 27m - through an opening in a "pressurisation shaft" area at a construction site here on Thursday (June 5). Penang Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) director Hairozie Asri said the department received information...
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Four people were taken to the hospital after an accident involving a car and a bus at Woodlands Checkpoint on the morning of Saturday (May 24). It also resulted in a lane closure for three hours, according to the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA). In response to queries, the police said they were...
IPOH: A professional skateboarder from China sustained serious injuries after getting hit by a car in front of the Ipoh Town Hall on Jalan Panglima Bukit Gantang Wahab here. Ipoh OCPD Asst Comm Abang Zainal Abidin Abang Ahmad said Song Zihao, 23, suffered injuries to his head, right limbs and hip after getting run over by...
IPOH: Another member of the Federal Reserve Unit (FRU) who was injured in the fatal accident on Tuesday (May 13) was discharged from Teluk Intan Hospital on Wednesday night. Hilir Perak police chief ACP Dr Bakri Zainal Abidin said the FRU member Lance Corporal Muhammad Aniq Taufiq Rozi was taken home to Arau, Perlis, by ambulance...
MUAR: A local man died on the spot in an accident involving the car he was driving and a lorry carrying hardware products at KM 104.1 of the North-South Expressway (Southbound). The Johor Fire and Rescue Department Operation Centre said they received an emergency call regarding the incident on Wednesday (May 14) at 8.49am. Pagoh Fire and...
