By Maria Almenoar

A FAMILY of six, residents in Sengkang, lost two of its members in a fatal accident on Malaysia's North-South Expressway on Thursday night.

The accident, which took place in Tangkak, near the Johor-Malacca border, left the mother of the family, Madam Chuah Bee Yang, 44, and her son, Ng Gau Heng, 14, dead.

The pair were with the rest of their family in a grey MPV driven by Madam Chuah's husband Ng Teong Boon, 45, when their car crashed into the back of a truck along the 143km mark of the expressway.

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