Seven die, 28 hurt in bus-tanker crash
SEVEN people died and 28 were injured, four of them seriously, when a tour bus ferrying a Kuala Lumpur Wanita Umno delegation crashed into the back of a tanker carrying latex at the Jelapang toll plaza near Ipoh yesterday.
A police spokesman said the driver and co-driver of the bus and four passengers died on the spot in the 4am accident while another victim died at Ipoh Hospital.
"The bus was on its way from Kubang Pasu to Cameron Highlands when the accident occurred," he said at the scene.