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By Alexandra Lorna JULAU: A 70-year-old man died on the spot in a road accident at SK Nanga Babai, Jalan Pakan near here at 12.30 noon yesterday. Ketit Beti’s Perodua Viva collided with a lorry carrying brick loads driven by lorry driver Wong Lung Che who was unhurt. Bomba Operations Commander Nicholas Beludin reported that there were two victims in the Perodua Viva. “Another victim, Jely Danggang, a 64-year-old woman who sustained injuries, was extricated by the public before Fire and Rescue Department (Bomba) personnel arrived at the scene. “Meanwhile, Ketit was pulled from the wreckage by firefighters and was pronounced dead on the spot by a medical officer on duty,” Beludin said in a press statement. He said the injured victim was sent to nearby Pakan Health Clinic for treatment. “The lorry driver escaped unhurt. Bomba later cleaned the oil spill on the road and ended the operations at 2.36 pm,” he added.
THE accident scene.

JULAU: A 70-year-old man died on the spot in a road accident at SK Nanga Babai, Jalan Pakan near here at 12.30 noon yesterday.

Ketit Beti’s Perodua Viva collided with a lorry carrying brick loads driven by lorry driver Wong Lung Che who was unhurt.

Bomba Operations Commander Nicholas Beludin reported that there were two victims in the Perodua Viva.

“Another victim, Jely Danggang, a 64-year-old woman who sustained injuries, was extricated by the public before Fire and Rescue Department (Bomba) personnel arrived at the scene.

“Meanwhile, Ketit was pulled from the wreckage by firefighters and was pronounced dead on the spot by a medical officer on duty,” Beludin said in a press statement.

He said the injured victim was sent to nearby Pakan Health Clinic for treatment.

“The lorry driver escaped unhurt. Bomba later cleaned the oil spill on the road and ended the operations at 2.36 pm,” he added.

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