Malaysia Opposition Politician Karpal Singh Dies in Crash
This article is for subscribers only.
Karpal Singh, an opposition Malaysian politician for more than four decades and lawyer who acted in some of the country’s highest-profile cases, was killed in a road accident today. He was 73.
Singh died at the scene of the crash after the car he was traveling in collided with a lorry at about 1 a.m. local time in the country’s northern state of Perak, the Star newspaper reported, without saying where it got the information. His son Gobind Singh Deo confirmed his death in a Twitter posting. An assistant also died in the accident, the paper said.