Final act saves dozens of lives


A BUS driver in India who suffered a heart attack while on the job used his final moments to save the lives of 25 passengers, Malaysia Nanban reported.

The 59-year-old man, known as Vengadasamy, was a driver for the Tamil Nadu state-run public bus company.

He reportedly suffered a massive heart attack while en route from Vellore to Salem but managed to pull the bus over safely before collapsing.

Passengers who realised what had happened helped rush him to a hospital but it was too late.

The passengers were saddened and touched by Vengadasamy’s sacrifice.

(The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.)

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