Family, friends pay last respects to Penang woman crushed by container

The Star

Hundreds, including family members and friends, gathered to bid a final farewell to Lee Zi Rou, 21, who tragically lost her life after being crushed by a cargo container on Wednesday (Nov 13).   Read more at https://tinyurl.com/ym9apt8e  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Hundreds of people, including family, friends, colleagues and former schoolmates, gathered

00:19to pay their final respects to Leed Sirol, who tragically lost her life after being crushed

00:24by a cargo container on November 13.

00:28The crowd assembled at her family home in Taman Alma on Sunday morning before the funeral

00:33ceremony began at around 10am.

00:37Those who came to bid farewell remembered Leed as a jovial and friendly individual.

00:49The funeral, conducted according to Buddhist rites, saw the cortege departing at 11.15am

00:55for the Berah Pit Chinese Cemetery and Crematorium, where Leed was cremated.

01:05Leed's life was cut short at the Jalan Bukit Terengganj Junction on Wednesday when the

01:10driver of a trailer lorry lost control while making a left turn, causing the cargo container

01:15to topple onto her car.

01:17The impact crushed the driver's side of her vehicle, leaving her with fatal injuries.

01:23The container also struck another car, seriously injuring its driver, 25-year-old Tancho Teng,

01:30who was rescued by passers-by and is currently hospitalised.

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