Brothers die after car falls into monsoon drain

Grim task: Fire and Rescue Department personnel working on retrieving the bodies of Shaamalen and Dhaarnish from their car after it had fallen into a monsoon drain in front of the department’s Meru Raya station in Ipoh.

IPOH: Two brothers were killed when the car they were in fell into a monsoon drain in front of the Meru Raya Fire and Rescue Department station here.

Aged 22 and 29, the siblings died on the spot in the pre-dawn accident along Jalan Jelapang-Chemor yesterday, said Ipoh OCPD Asst Comm Yahaya Hassan.