Bintulu: A car driver was killed, and four others in a four-wheel-drive Mitsubishi Triton, including its driver, were injured in a road crash involving the two vehicles at Pantai Tanjung Batu heading to Pantai ABF, Kidurong, last night.

According to BERNAMA News Agency, the Sarawak Operations Centre of the Malaysian Fire and Rescue Department reported that a team from the Bintulu Fire and Rescue Station was dispatched to the scene after receiving a call at 7.41 pm.

On arrival, the team found Ansam Maja, 39, trapped in the driver's seat of a Proton Persona and was unconscious. The rescue team removed the victim from the wrecked car, and he was pronounced dead by a medical team from the Ministry of Health before the body was handed over to the police for further action.

Meanwhile, the four victims in the Mitsubishi Triton were helped out of their wrecked vehicle by members of the public before the fire team arrived. They sustained head and leg injuries, according to a spokesperson at the centre.