4 men killed after car crashes into parked lorry in Sepanggar

KOTA KINABALU: Four men were killed after the Perodua Viva car they were travelling in skidded and crashed into a five-tonne lorry parked on the road shoulder at Taman Jaya Diri, Jalan Sepanggar, early today.

The Fire and Rescue Department said it received an emergency call about the incident at 2.37am.

It said personnel from the Kota Kinabalu fire and rescue station, assisted by the Lintas fire and rescue station, arrived at the scene at 2.59am and found all four victims, whose identities are still being ascertained, trapped inside the vehicle.

"The firemen found that the accident involved a Perodua Viva which had skidded before crashing into a five-tonne lorry parked on the road shoulder.

"Four victims were trapped inside the vehicle, and the firemen used special rescue equipment to extricate them," it said in a statement.

The operation to extricate the victims was completed at 3.50am, with all four pronounced dead at the scene by medical personnel.