Deadly storm: Firemen (left) recovering Johari’s remains and his car from a river in Kulim and a worker cleaning up a waiting room after a storm tore off a glass wall at the Bukit Mertajam railway station in Penang.
KULIM: Former soldier Johari Bakar, 76, told his children and wife to get into his car so that he could drive them to safety – but it was seconds too late.
The river near their kampung house burst its banks and a strong current swept him and his car away.
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