SANDAKAN: A 47-year-old man died and had his body dragged along by a trailer for five metres when the motorcycle he was riding on collided with the trailer on Friday around 10 pm in Mile 24 Labuk Road here.
The motorcyclist, Azaruddin Daud, was pronounced dead at the scene while the pillion rider who was with the victim was sent to the Duchess of Kent Hospital here.
According to Sandakan police chief ACP Rowell Marong, preliminary investigations revealed that the victim was riding from Sandakan town towards Mile 32 before it overturned and entered the opposite lane of the road.
The motorcycle then collided with the trailer which was moving from the opposite direction, whose driver was identified as Shahril Seman, 50.
The Fire and Rescue team here led by operation supervisor Callixtus Fedilis and assisted by the Kinabatangan Fire and Rescue team arrived at the location of the incident at 10.59pm.
The victim’s body was successfully extricated from underneath the trailer by 11.40pm.
Shahril, who was uninjured, later surrendered himself to the traffic office of the district police headquarters office here.
Meanwhile, the body of a three-year-old boy was found in Kampung Bahagia here, believed to had been electrocuted to death.
The boy’s remains were found by villagers around 5pm on Wednesday near the electrical cables in the village.