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Driver trapped nearly 2 hours after tanker lorry overturns in Selangor

TANJONG KARANG: The driver of a tanker lorry was trapped for nearly two hours after his vehicle overturned at a bend at Batu 7 here around midnight.

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Driver trapped nearly 2 hours after tanker lorry overturns in Selangor

A tanker lorry overturning on a bend in Tanjong Karang, Selangor, led to the driver being trapped for nearly two hours. The incident occurred around midnight when the vehicle skidded off the road and overturned, carrying a load of used black oil. The Selangor Fire and Rescue Department was alerted at 12.58am and dispatched a team of seven personnel and a fire engine to the scene. Firefighters managed to extricate the 30-year-old male driver, who was freed at 2.51am, nearly two hours after the accident.

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