IPOH: Two persons were killed and two others sustained serious injuries in an accident involving four vehicles at Kilometre 263.3 of the southbound lane of North-South Expressway, near Menora Tunnel today.

Meru fire and rescue station chief Shahrudi Muhamad Halil said they received a call around 3.56 pm about the incident involving three cars and a motorcycle that killed a 40-year-old man, K.Nagantheran at the scene.

He said two men and a woman in her 40s sustained serious injuries while another victim suffered light wounds. The remaining six victims were unhurt.

"The fire and rescue personnel who arrived at the scene managed to extricate a man who was trapped in a car using special equipment. Other victims were removed by members of the public before we arrived,” he said in a statement here today.

He said the rescue operation ended at 5 pm and all the victims were sent to the Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital.

Shahrudi said the injured woman victim who was the driver of a Perodua Myvi died in the hospital emergency ward this evening.

According to him, the victim who was identified as Maryamah Talib, 52, of Lengkok Tasek Barat 1A, Taman Anda here, was the sister of a police sergeant of Ipoh district police headquarters.

He said the remains of the victim, a teaching staff of a private hospital here would be sent for post-mortem.

-- BERNAMA