Three killed, 10 injured after lorry ploughs into bus


Heavy impact: The wreckage of the express bus, trailer lorry and tipper truck.

SEREMBAN: Three people were killed and 10 injured when a south-bound trailer lorry crashed through a guard rail at the 265.7-kilometre stretch of the North-South Expressway near here and ploughed into an express bus on the opposite lane.

During the incident at 3.20pm yesterday, the express bus driver Norzali Nordin, 56, from Malacca, passenger Rafidah Abdul Amid @ Abdul Hamid, 34, from Selangor, and the trailer lorry driver, who had yet to be identified at press time, died on the spot due to severe injuries.

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