Man feared drowned after car crashes through guardrail into river


SIBU:A 43-year old man is feared drowned after the car he was driving crashed into a metal railing and plunged into the river in front of a hotel here early Friday (May 27) morning.

The Sarawak Fire and Rescue Department, in its daily update, said a guest of a hotel who was about to check in, informed the receptionist that he had seen a car being driven at high speed ramming into the metal railing.

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