Prison officers killed in crash
RUBEN SARIO
sario@thestar.com.my
KOTA KINABALU: Four Sabah prison officers were killed when a bus plunged down a steep slope and overturned several times near Kampung Moyog, some 45km from here, yesterday.
In the incident at about 10.15am, the driver of the department bus lost control of the vehicle before it went off the road and plummeted down the slope.
Twenty-one people including family members of prison officers were injured.
Seven have been listed in critical condition.
The impact of the accident along the hilly and winding Tambunan-Kota Kinabalu trunk road sheared off the roof of the bus, pinning two of the dead victims.
The injured and the bodies of the dead were taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
A Fire and Rescue Services Department official listed the dead as bus co-driver Muslimin Muhamad, Madinah Alahamdulilah, Selamat Idris and Sabirin Murad.
Bus driver Rizwan Samda Mudin was injured.
Among the first to be plucked out by rescuers was 14-year-old Mohd Hafidz Ramli, whose father, Ramli Basal, was among the injured.
Mohd Hafidz said that after negotiating a sharp bend on a steep downhill slope, the driver lost control of the bus.
“It seemed as if he was trying to apply the brakes but he couldn’t control the vehicle.
“Everybody was screaming, then I passed out,” he said.
The bus also narrowly missed an electricity pole before the plunge.
Muslimin’s 14-year-old son, Mohd Noraihan, who had been sitting beside his father before the accident, said he was thrown about when the bus overturned.
“All I could remember was the bus shuddering as it plunged down the slope and I was thrown about in the bus,” he said after being pulled out from the wreckage.
The 40-seater bus was one of three buses carrying prison officers and their family members back after a three-day inter-state departmental football tournament.
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