ROMPIN: Another teacher has died of injuries sustained in an accident involving a bus and a trailer lorry on the Kuantan-Segamat road early today, taking the death toll to four.
Rompin police chief Nor Azman Yusof said the latest victim was identified as Dahlia Ahmad, 52.
The teacher is the fourth victim of the fatal crash after 48-year-old Hasnatul Adilah Hassan, the deputy principal 1 of SK Jeram, Melaka; bus driver Hadi Asyraf Mad Idris, 29; and school operation assistant Hamzah Ahmad, 60.
The bus, carrying 39 passengers including two drivers, overturned on a roadside slope after losing control and colliding with a trailer transporting steel coils.
The passengers, mostly teachers from SK Jeram, Masjid Tanah, and their children, were on their way to Terengganu. Ten passengers are still in hospital.