{"id":2951,"date":"2024-03-12T02:28:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T02:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/2024\/03\/12\/semporna-two-foreign-tourists-killed-in-collision\/"},"modified":"2024-03-12T02:28:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T02:28:19","slug":"semporna-two-foreign-tourists-killed-in-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/?p=2951","title":{"rendered":"Semporna: Two foreign tourists killed in collision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-id=\"2949\" src=\"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img-20240311-wa00377328617377758944237-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2949\" srcset=\"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img-20240311-wa00377328617377758944237-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img-20240311-wa00377328617377758944237-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img-20240311-wa00377328617377758944237.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Two foreign tourists lost their lives in a tragic collision between a tour bus carrying eight passengers and a trailer truck on Kalumpang Road (KM20) of the Semporna-Tawau road on Mar 11 (Mon).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Semporna Fire and Rescue Station Chief, Mazlan Sarman, identified the deceased as Lee Siong Huat, a 60-year-old male from Singapore, and Ngo Trinh Buu Dung, a 40-year-old female from Vietnam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both victims were pronounced dead at the scene by a medical officer from the Health Department before being handed over to the authorities for further procedures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mazlan stated that three male adults with severe injuries were rushed to Semporna Hospital for advanced medical care using EMRS vehicles, while two individuals (a female child and a male adult) with minor injuries were transported to the hospital in Health Ministry ambulances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortunately, the driver of the trailer truck escaped unharmed from the incident, as stated in the official media release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The emergency response team received the distress call at 4:03pm regarding the collision between the tour bus and the trailer truck carrying fruit cargo, which resulted in the vehicles veering off the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the assessment of the situation for any remaining hazards, the operation was successfully concluded by 5:30pm, said Mazlan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two foreign tourists lost their lives in a tragic collision between a tour bus carrying eight passengers and a trailer truck on Kalumpang Road (KM20) of the Semporna-Tawau road on Mar 11 (Mon). The Semporna Fire and Rescue Station Chief, Mazlan Sarman, identified the deceased as Lee Siong Huat, a 60-year-old male from Singapore, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG-20240311-WA0056.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}