Kuala Lumpur: At least nine members of a Malaysian paramilitary force were killed on Tuesday in a road accident. The transport truck they were travelling collided with a lorry. It happened when the unit was returning to the northern Malaysian city of Ipoh after guarding a Hindu festival.
‘A police truck collided with a truck carrying gravel, trapping three victims in the front with 15 others in the back,’ Perak Emergency Services said in a statement Police arrested the 40-year-old lorry driver in connection with the accident.
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Malaysia has one of the highest road accident death tolls in Southeast Asia, with somebody dying in a car accident almost every two hours, The Star newspaper reported in March.
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