DUNGUN: Three members of a family, including a two-month-old boy, were killed while two others were seriously injured after the car they were travelling in was involved in a crash at KM375.8, East Coast Highway 2 (LPT2) near Bukit Besi.
The victims who died were Raja Nurhanani Nabila Raja Hussin, 23, her son Nik Muhammad Zayyan Irfan Zulhilmi Ismail and her mother Noreha Mohamed, 53.Dungun OCPD Supt Baharudin Abdullah said the incident happened at 6.25pm on Tuesday when the car carrying the three victims along with two other family members went out of control and crashed into a sewer box on the left side of the road and overturned.
According to Bernama, he said the family was on their way to send Raja Nurhanani back to her husband’s house at Kem Tentera Darat Batu 10, Kuantan, from their village in Wakaf Baru, Kelantan. At the time of the incident, it was dark and the road conditions were also wet.
The bodies of Noreha and Nik Muhammad were sent to Dungun Hospital while Raja Nurhanani’s body was sent to Hulu Terengganu Hospital for a post-mortem.
