Padah lari sekatan polis

Wan Shahruddin (dua, kiri) bersama Inspektor Mohd Jamil Zaifani Ja’amin (kiri) melihat mangsa yang terbabit dalam kemalangan.

IPOH - Gara-gara cuba melarikan diri daripada Ops Sekatan Jalan Raya (SJR) bersepadu, sepasang kekasih menaiki motosikal terbabit dalam kemalangan ketika membuat pusingan U di Jalan Raja Musa Aziz, tengah malam semalam.

Dalam kejadian jam 12.20 tengah malam itu, pasangan berusia lingkungan 20-an dalam perjalanan pulang ke rumah ibu angkat perempuan terbabit sebelum terlibat dalam insiden berkenaan.

Penunggang motosikal yang juga teman lelakinya dipercayai tidak mempunyai lesen memandu dan baru datang dari Kuala Lumpur untuk berjumpa kekasihnya.

Bagaimanapun, ketika membelok berhampiran Klinik Kesihatan Greentown, motosikal jenis Modenas yang dinaiki pasangan tersebut bertindak menentang arus sehingga menyebabkan mereka bertembung dengan sebuah kereta yang melalui jalan itu.

Akibat kemalangan itu, separuh daripada motosikal tersebut terperosok di bahagian bawah bonet kereta jenis Proton Iswara yang dipandu seorang lelaki berusia 30-an.

Pembonceng motosikal terbabit mengalami kecederaan di kaki kanan manakala teman lelakinya tidak mengalami tidak cedera. Mangsa kemudiannya di bawa ke Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun (HRPB) untuk mendapatkan rawatan.


Sumber, Oktober 14

Pirates steal oil from Vietnam-bound tanker

KUALA LUMPUR:  A Thai-flagged oil tanker that went missing for two days after being hijacked by pirates has been released with its cargo missing, the International Maritime Bureau said Tuesday.

The IMB's Kuala Lumpur-based piracy reporting centre said the vessel became uncontactable on Sunday after leaving Singapore four days earlier.

"The pirates stole its cargo and caused some damage to the ship's communication equipment. All crew safe," the centre said in a short alert.

It added that the ship, originally bound for Vietnam, was heading back to Singapore, citing its owners.
Pirate attacks in the region, home to the Straits of Malacca, a key shipping route connecting east Asia with Europe and Africa, have dropped in recent years following stepped up patrols and co-operation with neighbouring countries to secure waterways.

But pirate attacks have surged this year, with the Southeast Asian region reporting the highest number of incidences (57) in the first half of 2013, according to the IMB.

- AFP, October 15