Another Victim Simpang Pulai Crash Dead

IPOH: Another victim of the freak bus accident in Simpang Pulai here last Monday died today, bringing the death toll to 28.

Ipoh Public Order and Traffic police chief DSP Mohd Rodzi Rejab said that 59-year-old Duranee Songsern, whose Muslim name is Dariah Ismail, died at 2.26pm at the Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital here.

Arrangements were being made to send her body back to Thailand.

Darunee, who had come to Malaysia to visit Cameron Highlands, had been treated in the Intensive Care Unit.

Mohd Rodzi said that only two other victims were being treated at the hospital.

"There were six previously but one died, two were relocated to the Hatyai Hospital yesterday and Friday," he said.

Meanwhile, Duranee's eldest child, Faisal Ismail, 40, said his mother will be buried in Kampung Nyaring, Pattani, either tonight or tomorrow morning.

"I am waiting for the documents allowing the body to pass through the Malaysia-Thailand border in Bukit Kayu Hitam," he said.

In the incident last Monday, a bus ferrying Thai tourists skidded and overturned at 15km of Jalan Cameron Highlands-Simpang Pulai. Two malaysians were among the dead.

The bodies of 25 Thai tourists and one injured were sent home on two Royal Thai Air Force aircraft from Subang on Wednesday, while three injured were relocated to the Hatyai Hospital by land.

(Source: Malay Mail)