A hero in the right place at the right time


An axe in time saves one: Oon showing his trusty tool which helped save a life in a crash in Baling.

BALING: Contractor Oon Thoo Seen, hailed an unsung hero by netizens for helping a seriously injured woman driver from her wrecked car, sees it as a responsibility to help others.

He was passing by the site of a head-on collision involving 37-year-old Sri Nursuzawilati Mat Noh’s Proton Saga with a Perodua Alza at KM14 of Jalan Pengkalan Hulu-Gerik on Thursday when his heroic act saved her life.

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