Hockey player Boon Huat dies in car crash


Tragic crash: The Proton Perdana which Boon Huat (inset) was driving collided with a water tanker along the Damansara-Puchong Expressway near the Kelana Jaya LRT station.

PETALING JAYA: National hockey player Chua Boon Huat was killed in an accident along the Damansara-Puchong Expressway (LDP) nine years after his father Peng Hock died under similar circumstances.

Boon Huat’s mother Tan Kuai Neo, 64, said she was shocked to hear that her son had died.

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