Lorry driver crushed to death by falling timber log


GUA MUSANG: A lorry driver was killed when a timber log fell on him while being unloaded at a sawmill in a Gua Musang industrial site here on Monday (May 8).

Gua Musang OCPD Supt Sik Choon Foo said the incident occurred at about 2.15pm when Norazian Hamdan, 53, who had just started work two months ago, was trying to unload the log as usual by opening four chain-locks except the middle section.

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