One killed, two injured in motorcycle accident at construction drainage site in Melaka


MELAKA: A 20-year-old man was killed while two others were injured when their motorcycles plunged into an under construction drainage site at Bukit Katil here after safety barriers placed by contractors were removed.

Melaka Tengah OCPD Asst Comm Christopher Patit said the three motorcyclists were passing through the worksite of the flood mitigation project at the traffic junction when the freak incident occurred at 6.30am on Thursday (Jan 4).

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