Three Pupils, Bus Driver Killed In Accident

213 views · Published 30 January 2018 · 1:22 · Indexed 18 October 2026

Channel: 7Edition · 2018 · News & Politics

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Three children were among four people killed as a school bus ploughed into a lorry in Bintulu, this morning.

The bus was ferrying 23 children of plantation workers to school, when the mishap occurred at Jalan Pesisir Bintulu-Miri in Samalaju around 6am.

It is learnt that the school bus smashed into the rear of the lorry before both vehicles ended up by the roadside.

The three primary school pupils, aged between nine and 11, sustained severe head and bodily injuries and died at the Bintulu Hospital.

Two of the victims were identified as Nur Nabila Syakila, aged 9 and Aien Laila Aliesha, aged 11.

The school bus driver, 50-year-old Ramnelan Samat, died on the spot.

Six other pupils, who were also injured, received outpatient treatment from the same hospital.

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