Tragedy struck once more within the wee hours of the morning when a tour bus carrying 46 passengers collided with a tanker and a tow truck in Batu Pahat, leaving two Indonesians useless and 16 injured. In accordance with Sinar Harian, the incident occurred on kilometre 80.7 of the North-South Freeway.
In an announcement, Ayer Hitam fireplace division operations commander, senior fireplace officer II Md Isa Masngun, mentioned that his staff and the Yong Peng fireplace division rushed to the scene after receiving an emergency name at 12:44 am, including that when they arrived on the location, it was discovered that two passengers had been discovered trapped within the wreckage and pronounced useless on the scene.
Md Isa additionally mentioned the drivers of each the tanker and tow truck had been each protected. The hearth division had to make use of particular tools to free the trapped victims earlier than the remainder of the passengers might be evacuated, with the injured both being despatched to the hospital through a ministry of well being ambulance or attended to by an emergency medical rescue providers (EMRS) staff. The operation was accomplished at 3:03 am.
That is at the very least the second deadly bus accident in two months, following one other tour bus crash in Gerik, Perak that resulted within the deaths of 15 college students. In response, the transport ministry instituted a mandate for bus drivers and passengers to put on seat belts, which went into impact on July 1.
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