KUANTAN: Two Bangladeshi plantation workers were killed when a four-wheel drive they were travelling in skidded and overturned at Jalan Ladang Agropolitan Gahai in Kampung Tanjung Gahai, Kuala Lipis, yesterday.
Lipis district police chief Ismail Man said Shamim Reza, 24, and Tuhin Ali, 26, who were seated at the back of the vehicle, were crushed by the four-wheel drive and pronounced dead at the scene.
He said an investigation revealed that the vehicle, carrying six Bangladeshi passengers, skidded and overturned while negotiating a downhill bend on their way back to a workers’ quarters in Kampung Tanjung Gahai.
“The driver and the other passengers escaped unhurt. The case is still being investigated under Section 41(1) of the Road Transport Act 1987,” he said in a statement today.