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  • Writer: TEOH JIA WEI
    TEOH JIA WEI
  • Jan 24, 2019
  • 2 min read

1) Penang Bridge drowned victim discovered

GEORGE TOWN: The driver of the white SUV that plunged into the sea from the Penang Bridge has been identified as 20-year-old student Moey Yun Peng.

Seberang Prai Tengah district police chief Assistant Commissioner Nik Ros Azhan Nik Abd Hamid said this followed a missing person report lodged by a man at the district police headquarters here about 5pm today.

He said the man claimed that his son had failed to return home and was believed to be the driver of the car that crashed and plunged into the sea.

“The father said he received information from his son’s friends that the latter was involved in an accident and had plunged into the sea,” he said.

Earlier , it was reported that an accident involving two cars on the Penang Bridge caused one of the vehicles to crash through the guard rail and plunge into the sea.

The accident took place at 2.30am at Km4 of the bridge, in the direction of the mainland.

When rescuers arrived at the scene, they found a heavily damaged Toyota Vios, while witnesses said the other car had fallen into the sea.

The 21-year-old driver of the Toyota Vios sustained injuries and is being treated at the Seberang Jaya Hospital.



2) Casualties on flaming ships in Kerch Strait

(CNN) 10 victims have been recorded in the incident involving two ships that caught fire in the Kerch Strait near Crimea on Monday evening.

A spokesman for the Russian Maritime Agency said: "Presumably, an explosion occurred (on one of the vessels). Then the fire spread to another vessel. A rescue tug is en route."

A rescue operation is underway and crew members jumped into the waters to escape the flames, Russia's transport ministry told Reuters.

The ministry added that both ships had a total of 31 crew members, including Indian and Turkish citizens.

The Kerch Strait is a key waterway that holds strategic importance for both Russia and Ukraine. It is an important economic lifeline for Ukraine that allows ships leaving the port city of Mariupol to access the Black Sea.

It is also the the closest point of access for Russia to Crimea, a peninsula Moscow annexed in 2014.

A Russian-built bridge over the Kerch Strait opened in May last year.


 
 
 

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