SMASHED UP: The two badly damaged vehicles.
TRAGIC: Police bringing a body to the mortuary in Mukah.
SIBU: Six persons, including two children and three women, were killed when two vehicles collided at Km113 Sibu – Bintulu Road at 7.45am yesterday.
The Proton Saga carrying five persons was heading out of Sibu, while the Toyota Hilux carrying a couple and a child was heading towards Kuching from Miri.
All five in the Proton Saga perished – the driver, two women and two children.
A woman in the Toyota Hilux car was also killed.
Mukah police chief DSP Omar Bakhtiar Yaacob confirmed the tragedy, saying the six bodies had been sent to the mortuary in the coastal town.
Mukah police police chief DSP Omar Bakhtiar Yaacob confirmed the tragedy, saying they received a call at 8.10am from a member of the public.
Omar identified the five who perished from the Proton Saga as Mohd Serhan Suaib (the driver), 35, from Semporna (Sabah), his pregnant wife Dayang Norhayati Tusin, 30, Norafizah Tusin, 23, nine-month-old Muhammad Danish Nurban Mohd Serhan and two-year-old Siti Nur Rasidah Mohd Adi Azri from Brunei.
Dayang was sitting beside her husband (the driver) when the accident occurred.
She was nine months’ pregnant and expected to deliver soon.
The police have not confirmed the relationship of the couple with the three backseat passengers.
In the Toyota Hilux, two of the three passengers survived.
The survivors are Ali Kamat (the driver), 59, and his four-year-old grandson who fractured his right leg.
Ali’s wife Napsiah Hassan, 61, died in the accident.
According to Ali, the only adult survivor, the Proton Saga had crushed into the side of his Toyota Hilux.
Police have yet to confirm this.
Ali said they had just visited Miri, his wife’s hometown, and had started out at 4am to return to Kuching.
Yesterday news
6 perish in road accident
MUKAH: Six persons, including three women, were killed in a road accident at km113 Sibu-Bintulu Road early this morning when two cars collided.
One of the deceased is believed to be a pregnant woman.
Mukah police have confirmed the identities of the six but could not confirm yet who among the women was pregnant.
However, The Borneo Post learnt from a friend of one of the deceased that a woman was returning to Bintulu to deliver, as she was already in her ninth month of pregnancy.
In confirming the tragedy, Mukah police said the six bodies had been sent to Mukah Hospital mortuary.
Its chief DSP Omar Bakhtiar Yaacob said they received a distress call at 8.10am from a member of the public, after which they despatched traffic policemen to the scene.
Omar identified the six as Mohd Serhan Suaib aged 35 of Semporna, Dyg Norhayati Tusin aged 30 (no address given), Norafizah Tusin aged 23 (no address given), Muhammad Danish Nurban bin Mohd Serhan, nine months old (no address given), Siti Nur Rasidah Mohd Adi Azri, two years old, of Brunei and Napsiah Hassan, aged 61 (no address given).
Details of the accident are still sketchy.