Four injured as chemical tanker overturns


IPOH:  A tanker lorry transporting industrial chemical believed to contain formaldehyde overturned on a south-bound lane of the North-South Expressway here, forcing temporary closure of that stretch on the highway. 

Ipoh Fire and Rescue Station chief P. Sumasivam said two cars collided into the overturned tanker and four people, one of them the lorry driver, were injured in the accident at KM269.8, some three kilometres from the Jelapang toll plaza at 7.20am Thursday.

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