GENTING HIGHLANDS BUS CRASH: 'We're just glad bus didn't explode'

Investigators from the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (Miros) examining the wreckage of the bus that plunged into a ravine in Genting Highlands, killing 37 out of its 53 passengers.


A smoking worker nearly sets rescue crew aflame after wreckage started leaking fuel

RESCUE personnel had a close call when the stage bus they were lifting from Wednesday's crash site started leaking fuel.

About 100 firemen and police personnel at the scene reacted immediately to avert another catastrophe.

As soon as the wreckage was laid down on the road after being hauled up by a mammoth crane, diesel started flowing from the fuel tanks onto the road. Recovery personnel scrambled to put sand and earth as well as sawdust from their rescue vehicles to plug the tanks.

Before anyone could breathe a sigh of relief, a foreign worker ambled into view with a lit cigarette, risking a massive conflagration, just metres from the wreckage.

An alert policeman shouted at the foreign worker, who immediately stubbed out his cigarette.

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GENTING BUS TRAGEDY: 10 hospitalised victims reported stable

MIROS inspecting the bus that was lifted from the ravine at KM 3.6 Jalan Genting-Kuala Lumpur here in Genting Highlands.

Ten victims of the Wednesday's Genting bus tragedy who were hospitalised at the Selayang and Sungai Buloh hospitals were reported to be in stable condition.

Selayang Hospital director Dr Siti Zaleha Mohd Salleh said all eight victims admitted to the hospital, three locals, three Bangladeshis and two Indonesians, were recovering and that some of them might be discharged soon.

"Some have been placed in the orthopaedic and surgical wards, depending on the nature of their injuries.

"As of last night, all eight are still being treated at this hospital although we have been informed that some of the foreign nationals want to be transferred to private hospitals," she said when contacted by Bernama.

On Wednesday, three of those admitted were reported to be in critical condition and the rest semi-critical.


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After mix-up over bus blacklisted cover up in fatal crash, MCA wants full probe

Blacklisted one day and cleared the next.

Inconsistent information surrounding one of Malaysia’s deadliest bus crashes requires a comprehensive investigation to ensure the victims and families are afforded the “truth and justice” due to them, MCA publicity chief Datuk Heng Seai Kie said today.

“As Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has proposed to set up a special investigation committee to probe the cause of the accident, we urge the committee to leave no stone unturned as this issue has befallen several times already,” she said in a statement.

“The findings must be made public.”

On Thursday, a day after the ill-fated bus that plunged into a ravine on Wednesday and killed 37 people, English daily The Star reported that the vehicle was placed on a blacklist by the Road Transport Department (JPJ) prior to its journey to Genting Highlands.

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GENTING BUS TRAGEDY: Wreckage of bus lifted

The bus that was involved in the recent accident in Genting being inspected by Puspakom and the Road Transport Department (JPJ).Picture shows the police and the Fire and Rescue Department lifting the wreckage of the bus that was involved in an accident in Genting Highlands





The police along with the Fire and Rescue Department today lifted the wreckage from the scene with the use of one crane and two trailers.

Bentong OCPD, Superintendent Mohd Mansor Mohd Nor said the bus would first be inspected at the scene of the accident and later inspected again at the Bentong police headquarters for a final analysis.

"We are unsure on how long the operation will take. There was heavy rain this morning, and the land might not be able to accommodate the weight.

"The ground is also uneven, so if the engineers feel that it's unsafe, we will halt the operation," he said.

Meanwhile 31 out of 37 bodies involved in the Genting bus crash have been identified.

Mansor said 20 out of the 31 identified bodies have been claimed. The claimed bodies were of 11 Chinese men, seven Chinese women, one Malay man and a Indonesian man.

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GENTING BUS TRAGEDY: Families console each other 37 deaths

SOMBRE MOOD AT HOSPITAL: Tears flow freely as loved ones gather to say goodbye to those who died in crash

KUALA LUMPUR: PARENTS wailed openly over the deaths of their children. Over to one side, in a quiet corner, a couple huddled together, the wife trying her best to console her husband, his head buried in his hands, tears dropping in a steady stream.

The mood at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital mortuary yesterday was sombre, the air laden with despair and hopelessness as the families of the 37, who died in the country's worst bus crash, gathered to claim the remains of their loved ones.

At the hospital's forensics department, Lee Siew Ying stared blankly. Her face was that of a mother's whose heart had been shattered into a million pieces by the death of her son, Sia Chin Shin, 22, whom she described as "a loving son".


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Genting bus tragedy 37 killed Bus was on JPJ blacklist before Genting crash

The ill-fated bus that plunged into a ravine yesterday and killed 37 people was placed on a blacklist with the Road Transport Department (JPJ) prior to its journey to Genting Highlands.

English daily The Star reported that this was confirmed from checks on the bus’ records in the JPJ website. It is not known, however, the reason for the blacklist.

According to the daily, Bentong OCPD Supt Mansor Mohd Noor revealed that the bus belonged to Genting Highlands Transport Sdn Bhd, a KL-based firm.

The paper also quoted a spokesperson for Genting Malaysia Berhad as saying that the vehicle is a public transport bus.

“It is not ours,” the spokesman said, before offering condolences to the families of the dead and accident victims.

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GENTING BUS TRAGEDY UPDATE: Police call off search for bodies

Police have called off the search and rescue operation for victims of the bus crash incident, which killed 37 people and severely injured 16 others, at Km3.5 in Jalan Genting near Chin Swee Temple.

Bentong district police chief Superintendent Mohd Mansor Mohd Nor said the police were now concentrating on finding belongings of the bus passengers.


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GENTING BUS TRAGEDY UPDATE: Post mortem on 30 bodies, done - Dead passengers identified

Police have identified at least 15 passengers who were among 37 killed in the Genting bus crash near the Chin Swee Temple yesterday.

Bentong district deputy police chief Deputy Superintendent Wan Azharuddin Wan Ismail said police are still in the midst of ascertaining the identities of the remaining victims.

The tragedy, said to be the worst in the nation’s bus crashes, saw 16 other passengers, seriously injured.

Preliminary police investigations showed the bus was out of control for about 100 metres before it plunged into a 60m-deep ravine at KM 3.5 from the peak of the popular hill resort.

Pahang police chief Datuk Sharifuddin Ab Ghani said the bus had first hit the side of a hill before careening off the road.


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At bottom of Genting ravine, lives cut short in their prime

A relative of one of the Genting bus crash victims weeps in anguish over the loss of his loved one. Thirty-seven people died in the tragic accident Wednesday, when an express bus plunged down a 60m ravine near Genting Highlands. A man weeps silently after confirming that a relative was one of the victims of the tragic Genting Highlands bus crash Wednesday.


All Kwan Chin Yii wanted to do was earn some pocket money when she took up a part-time job at the popular mountain resort of Genting Highlands.

She had just finished her shift that Wednesday afternoon.

Meeting up with her boyfriend Sia Chin Shin near her work place, the couple proceeded to take the journey back to Kuala Lumpur together as planned.

They got on an express bus, and that was the last thing they told their families they were going to do. They never made it home.

"His girlfriend asked him to go pick her up from Genting after she was done with work. He never got home.

"We tried calling both their handphones, but we couldn't get through. We were not sure what had happened," said Sia's childhood friend, who only identified himself as Goh.


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Genting crash: Bus plunges into ravine

A bus carrying passengers has plunged into a ravine at KM3 going down Genting Highlands at 3pm Wednesday.

37 dead in Genting bus crash

Thirty seven people were killed in Malaysia's worst road tragedy, after a bus carrying 53 plunged into a ravine near Genting Highlands on Wednesday.

37 dead, 16 injured in Malaysia’s worst accident

Thirty-seven people have been confirmed dead in Malaysia's worst road accident when a bus plunged into a 200-foot deep ravine as it made its way down from the Genting Highlands resort in Pahang this afternoon.

Rescuers gave the death toll as police dog units scoured the undergrowth in the ravine for any more survivors of the accident that happened just before 3pm, some four km from the popular hill resort. The driver, in his 40s, also died in the accident, police said.

The 16 passengers who were rescued, 10 men and six women, were sent to hospitals in Selayang, Kuala Lumpur, Sungai Buloh and Bentong. Some of them suffered severe injuries, said authorities.

There were a total of 53 people in the bus which came from the resort, 55km away from Kuala Lumpur. Initial reports had put the total number aboard the bus at 49.

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Express bus plunges down Genting ravine, death toll now at 37

An express bus carrying 49 passengers has plunged 30 metres into a ravine, some 2km from the Chin Swee Caves Temple en route to Kuala Lumpur near Genting Highlands resort today.Rescuers have so far pulled out 16 people and one body from the wreckage.Two rescue personnels using a crane to get down into the ravine in order to bring the victims up.



Thirty-seven people died in a horrific bus crash near mountain resort Genting Highlands today, in what is arguably the worst road accident involving an express bus in recent years.

Citing Fire and Rescue Department deputy director-general Datuk Soiman Jahid, The Star Online reported that the dead were among 53 passengers who were on board the bus when it plunged down a thirty meter ravine at around 3pm.

Soiman confirmed that 41 of the passengers, including survivors, had been pulled out of the wreckage as at 8.50pm.

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Raya bus tickets going fast

Those to Kelantan and Terengganu are almost sold out

KUALA LUMPUR: EXPRESS bus tickets to Kelantan and Terengganu for Hari Raya Aidilfitri are almost sold out.

Checks by the New Straits Times at the Putra bus terminal here yesterday found many operators had sold almost all their tickets for East Coast-bound buses.

Tickets for Kota Baru were almost sold out while those for Kuala Terengganu were selling fast.

Mara Liner Sdn Bhd had sold out tickets to Kuala Terengganu and it planned to offer extra trips on Aug 5 and 7 at 11pm, depending on the demand.

Seven hurt in three accidents in 10 minutes within 50m stretch

Seven people were injured in three separate accidents in a space of 10 minutes within a 50m stretch of the North-South Expressway here.

The accidents brought the north-bound traffic to a crawl.

The first occurred when an express bus hit the back of a lorry at KM58.7 of the expressway near Kobah at 4am yesterday during heavy rain.

Bus driver Zaini Hussain, 44, and three passengers, including two Thais, were injured in the accident.

The bus and lorry were travelling to Padang Besar from Singapore and Johor respectively.

Moments later, two Myanmar nationals on a motorcycle failed to avoid the glass debris from the accident, lost control of the machine, and crashed to the side of the road. Both were also injured.

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8 Thais injured in bus crash

Workers of the express bus company inspecting the overturned bus at Km139.1 of the North-South Expressway near Butterworth.
One of the passengers comforting another who was injured in the

Eight passengers were injured after the express bus they were travelling in skidded and overturned at Km139.1 of the North-South Expressway near here early yesterday.

The accident happened after heavy rain at 4am.

5 people die in various places in midnight accidents.

Five people, including two motorcyclists, died in three separate accidents here between midnight and 10am yesterday.

Acting district police chief Superintendent Adnan Azizon said at 10am, a one-tonne lorry from Yong Peng rammed into a lorry which was waiting to turn into Pekan Sri Medan at Km14.5, Jalan Muar-Yong Peng.

Adnan said the lorry driver must have failed to notice the stationary lorry in front of him and crashed into the back of the vehicle.


While the two lorry drivers escaped with light injuries, the accident had sparked another collision between a lorry and a Toyota Corona at the same spot.

"The car ended up in a drain, while the lorry crashed into a bus stop nearby. Both drivers died on the spot."

The deceased were identified as lorry driver Mohammad Syukri Musa, 39, from Seremban, while the car driver was Selamat Muskar, 44, from Kampung Sri Maamor, Tangkak, Muar.


Selamat's wife Salimah Anggerip, 39, and an unidentified youth sustained injuries and were warded in the emergency ward of the district hospital.

One passenger killed, six seriously hurt in accident

A passenger was killed while six others were seriously injured when their bus was involved in an accident with two lorries at Km341.9 North South Expressway early today.

Tapah district police chief Supt Roslan Bek Ahmad said the 4:50am accident near Bidor killed Sahad@Shariff Md Din, 74, of Tanjung Tokong, Penang.

"Sahad who suffered serious head injury died at the scene and was then sent to Tapah Hospital for an autopsy," he told reporters today.

Passengers with serious injury were sent to Tapah Hospital, Teluk Intan Hospital and Ipoh Hospital for treatment.

The 35 passengers and bus driver were given out-patient treatment at Tapah Hospital and continued the journey with another bus.

Cameron Highlands bus mishap claims another life

The gruesome accident at Km15 of the Cameron Highlands-Simpang Pulai road last Monday has claimed another life bringing the total fatalities to 28.

Ipoh OCPD Asst Comm Azisman Alias said Darunee Songserm, 59, passed away yesterday at 2.26pm.

Darunee, who has been warded at Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit, succumbed to head and chest injuries.

Hospital deputy director Dr S. Kamalakshi said there were two more accident victims, both Thais, receiving treatment at the hospital. She said both are in stable condition.

Dr Kamalakshi said this after a visit by Ipoh Timor MCA division chief Datuk Thong Fah Chong at the hospital’s maternity ward here to present gifts to Christmas babies.

In the tragic accident, 25 Thai nationals and two Malaysians were killed when the high-decked bus they were in crashed into a divider, overturned and landed on its roof in a ditch.

Fire and Rescue Department trying their best to rescue the victims.The accident aftermath. Just look how bad the accident is.

Independent probe for Cameron Highlands bus crash

The coffins of 25 Thai nationals killed in tragic bus crash in Cameron Highlands before being flown back aboard two Thai Royal Airforce C130 planes at the TUDM Subang airstip today.