news on 30.05.2006ALOR STAR: Seven members of a family and another person were killed in a horrific accident near the Hutan Kampung toll plaza, near here, yesterday.
The 3.53pm incident occurred after a trailer rammed into a Proton Iswara carrying the family and a Perodua Kancil in front of it.
The family was pinned under the wheels of the trailer as the heavy vehicle crashed into the Kancil, in which the eighth victim was travelling.
Total wreck: The mangled Iswara had to be cut apart to remove the victims.
All eight died on the spot while a six-month-old boy in the Kancil was left in an unconscious state. The child’s mother, the driver of the car, suffered a fractured right leg.
The impact caused the Kancil to crash into an Isuzu Trooper, which, in turn, rammed into another trailer.
All five vehicles were heading towards Bukit Kayu Hitam, at the Malaysian-Thai border.
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The incident, which occurred about 200m from the toll plaza, caused a traffic jam for over two hours.
Among the dead were three children, identified as Mohd Afif Alias, six, Nurul Izati Alias, four, and one-year-old Uzma Daniel Syahril.
They were travelling with their grandfather Ilias Salleh, 54, and three of his children: Suraya Ilias, 32, Mohd Azlan Ilias, 31, and Sawiyah Ilias, 27.
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The victim in the Kancil was identified as Wan Rohani Wan Ibrahim, 54, who was travelling with her daughter Umi Syakila Sobri, 23, and grandson six-month-old Mohd Aris Irfan.
The driver and two passengers in the Isuzu escaped unharmed.
Rescuers took 90 minutes to extricate the bodies of the victims from the mangled Iswara.
Ilias and his family, from Kampung Baru in Tasek Gelugor, near Butterworth, were believed to be going to a relative’s house in Changlun.
Wan Rohani and her daughter were on their way home to Kampung Lubok Batu in Wang Tepus, Jitra, after visiting a relative who had delivered a baby at the Alor Star Hospital.
Kota Setar OCPD Asst Comm Zainal Abidin Kasim said the driver of the trailer had lodged a report and told police he could not stop his vehicle in time.
Media told not to speculate on events in woman’s death
KUALA LUMPUR: Police have appealed to the media to stop speculating on events leading to the death of 51-year-old Yek Yow Ngan who was said to have been pursued by a group of men with parangs and iron rods.
Subang Jaya OCPD Asst Comm Zainal Rashid said that the speculations could hamper investigations.
Yek: Said to have been pursued by a group of men with parangs and iron rods
“A lot has been reported in the last two days. It is best if the police were left to complete their investigations,” he said yesterday.
ACP Zainal denied reports that police had identified five suspects in the incident.
“We have neither identified anyone nor have we detained anyone,” he said, adding that police were investigating the case from all angles, including accident and robbery.
Federal CID director Comm Datuk Christopher Wan Soo Kee called upon the public to be more alert and immediately lodge a report after an accident.
“They must have the telephone numbers of police stations so that they can contact the police in case they are trailed by suspicious characters after an accident,” he said.
Yow Ngan died at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital after being involved in a road accident in Puchong. Her son, Yek Yeong Hon, said that she had been pursued by a gang of men with parangs and iron rods.
He claimed the group had earlier smashed his mother's car front and back windscreens.
Yeong Hon insisted yesterday that Assunta Hospital had demanded a RM10,000 deposit from him before his mother could be treated.
The hospital issued a statement on Monday stating that it had given Yow Ngan all the medical attention she needed and had never demanded any deposit for her treatment.
Yeong Hon also said he did not ask for his mother’s transfer to Kuala Lumpur Hospital.
When contacted, a spokesman said Assunta Hospital would stand by its original statement.
Yow Ngan will be cremated at the Nirvana Memorial Park in Semenyih at 2pm today.
Many unaware of vacancies for teachers
UNITED Chinese School Teachers Association (Jiao Zong) has refuted an Education Ministry claim that no Chinese applied for the position of temporary teacher at Chinese schools, reported China Press.
The daily quoted Jiao Zong president Ong Chiow Chuan as saying that the statement was not true as many prospective candidates were not aware of available vacancies as the ministry only placed recruitment advertisements in Malay newspapers.
“How are these people going to apply for the posts when they are not aware of the recruitment campaign?”
He said some teachers at Chinese schools, who were sent for training from December to March to prepare them to be counsellors, found out on their return that they had been replaced by Malay teachers who did not understand Chinese.
“Jiao Zong opposes this unreasonable move as Malay teachers, who cannot understand Chinese, do not have what it takes to counsel students at Chinese schools,” he said.
He added that the department had not considered the real needs of Chinese schools when it made such a move.
> Sin Chew Daily reported that Singapore-based Malaysian actor Christopher Lee Meng Soon had dropped his appeal against a four-week jail term and had begun serving his sentence.
The 35-year-old had been sentenced to jail , a fine of S$4,500 (RM10,350) and a three-year driving ban on May 10 for drink-driving and hit-and-run offences.
Lee was involved in an accident on Oct 8 after his car sideswiped a motorcycle.
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