Five-year-old boy drowns after car plunges into canal near Kg Gajah, Perak

IPOH: A five-year-old boy drowned after he was trapped in car that plunged into a canal along Jalan Bota Kiri-Ulu Dedap near Kampung Gajah near here.

Perak Tengah district police chief Supt Barudin Wariso said the victim, Muhamad Harith Sulayman Mohd Hanis, drowned while his 30-year-old mother and four-year-old sister survived unscathed in the 5.30pm incident on Thursday (March 17).