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M'sian bus driver killed in gruesome crash at toll plaza
JOHOR BARU, Malaysia: The driver of a bus was killed in a gruesome accident while eight others were injured after the vehicle crashed into a gantry at the Skudai toll plaza.
The impact of the crash caused the driver's heart to be torn from his body and sliced into two. One part of the heart was in the bus and the other flung outside.
The deceased was 48-year-old P. Anbalagan from Pasir Gudang, while the injured, six women and two men, are believed to be Indonesians.
The bus, carrying 13 passengers, was heading for Johor Baru from Kuala Lumpur when the accident occurred at 12.19pm.
A toll operator, who declined to be named, said he saw the bus careening down the slope and crashing into the gantry.
"I ran out of the booth when I saw metal bars come crashing down," he said, adding that the co-driver was flung out of the bus on impact.
Another witness, tow-truck operator M. Sivachandran, 27, said he ran to the toll plaza when he heard a loud crash and was horrified to see the bus driver dead. He said the scene was chaotic and he assisted several traumatised passengers out of the bus.
The victim's son Rajendran Prakash, in his 20s, was seen weeping over his father's body while the heart was placed inside a tissue box.
Kulaijaya OCPD Supt Zulkifly Ahmad said the co-driver from Permas Jaya and the passengers sustained only light injuries and were taken to the Kulai Hospital for treatment.
The bus is believed to have brake problems.

JOHOR BARU, Malaysia: The driver of a bus was killed in a gruesome accident while eight others were injured after the vehicle crashed into a gantry at the Skudai toll plaza.
The impact of the crash caused the driver's heart to be torn from his body and sliced into two. One part of the heart was in the bus and the other flung outside.
The deceased was 48-year-old P. Anbalagan from Pasir Gudang, while the injured, six women and two men, are believed to be Indonesians.
The bus, carrying 13 passengers, was heading for Johor Baru from Kuala Lumpur when the accident occurred at 12.19pm.
A toll operator, who declined to be named, said he saw the bus careening down the slope and crashing into the gantry.
"I ran out of the booth when I saw metal bars come crashing down," he said, adding that the co-driver was flung out of the bus on impact.
Another witness, tow-truck operator M. Sivachandran, 27, said he ran to the toll plaza when he heard a loud crash and was horrified to see the bus driver dead. He said the scene was chaotic and he assisted several traumatised passengers out of the bus.
The victim's son Rajendran Prakash, in his 20s, was seen weeping over his father's body while the heart was placed inside a tissue box.
Kulaijaya OCPD Supt Zulkifly Ahmad said the co-driver from Permas Jaya and the passengers sustained only light injuries and were taken to the Kulai Hospital for treatment.
The bus is believed to have brake problems.