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28 April 2012| last updated at 07:56PM

Car on fire causes massive crawl on Penang Bridge



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George Town: Traffic on the Penang Bridge heading to Seberang Perai ground to a crawl for almost two hours from 1.15pm today when a car caught fire.

A Fire brigade spokesman said the car was believed to have caught fire due to an engine problem.  

However, he said a team of firemen from the Jalan Perak Fire Station managed to control the fire from spreading to other vehicles on the bridge within 10
minutes .

"Although the car was 100 percent destroyed, the driver was lucky to get out of the vehicle in time. Right now, we were still investigating the
actual cause of the fire," he told reporters here.
 

Meanwhile, Penang traffic police chief DSP Abdul Rahim Md Din, when contacted, confirmed that they had received a report on the incident. -- Bernama

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