Driver nods off and crashes, killing his family


Holiday tragedy: The wreckage of the car that claimed the life of a mother and her two children on the North South Highway.

KUALA LUMPUR: A man dozed off behind the steering wheel for a fleeting second and now his wife and their two young children are dead.

The couple and their children, together with two relatives, were making a trip from their hometown in Pahang to Kedah to visit relatives for the festi­vities at about 6am yesterday when tragedy struck.

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