Sabah tractor driver electrocuted while trying to save friend


KOTA KINABALU: A tractor driver was killed after being electrocuted while trying to rescue his friend who was trapped in a burning truck.

The victim, identified as John Adam Baudi, 56, was operating a backhoe while his friend was on a truck unloading sand near Kg Samparita, Kota Marudu district at around 11am, Tuesday (Nov 14).

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