SEREMBAN: Two family members were killed after the multi-purpose vehicle (MPV) they were travelling in was involved in a crash involving five vehicles along Jalan Besar Palong 4, Gemas, near here on Thursday (May 5) night.

       Jempol OCPD Supt Hoo Chang Hook said in the 11.50pm incident, the victims, identified as Mohd Azharruddin, 34, and Nor Rohaini, 62, of Felda Palong 12, suffered severe head injuries and were pronounced dead at the scene.

       "Preliminary investigation founds that the driver, only known as Noorakmawati, of an MPV travelling from Dungun, Terengganu to Melaka via Jalan Palong, was believed to have lost control of her vehicle before swerving and crashing into the right rear tyre of a lorry driven by a 39-year-old man coming from the opposite direction.

       "It also grazed the front of another MPV that was also from the opposite direction,” he said in a statement Friday.

       Supt Hoo said the MPV driven by Noorakmawati then collided head-on with another MPV driven by a 29 -year-old woman who was travelling with the two victims before yet another MPV crashed into Noorakmawati's vehicle.

       He said five other victims suffered injuries to the head, abdomen and fractured legs while the remaining three victims escaped uninjured.

       Supt Hoo added that the remains of the two victims were taken to the Jempol Hospital for post-mortem and the case was investigated under Section 41 (1) of the Road Transport Act 1987. - Bernama