14 killed in deadly Thursday crashes


Tragic morning: Fire and Rescue Department personnel dousing the flaming Pos Malaysia lorry near the Pedas-Linggi toll plaza on the North-South Expressway. The early morning accidents also claimed the lives of (inset) Mohd Fauzan and his wife Nur Hidayah.

PETALING JAYA: It was a deadly Thursday morning as 14 people – a family of four, four friends, four college students and two others – were killed in four separate accidents in a space of just under three hours between about 3.30am and 6am.

Army staff member Mohd Fauzan Bakar was travelling with his wife and two young daughters when he is said to have lost control of his car which collided with another car along the Bahau-Keratong highway at around 6am yesterday.

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