TELUK INTAN: Four Pakistanis have been remanded for four days for rioting and assaulting a driver who rammed into six of their countrymen along Jalan Teluk Intan-Bidor.
Magistrate T Ashvinii granted the remand order at the Teluk Intan Magistrates' Court to facilitate further investigations into the case.
The suspects, aged 24 to 49, are plantation workers.
They were arrested yesterday evening after the driver of the Proton Saga involved in the accident lodged a report claiming he was assaulted in the aftermath of the crash which killed three people and injured three others.
The driver, who was on drugs at the time of the accident, has pleaded guilty to drug abuse.
Earlier, Hilir Perak district police chief, Assistant Commissioner Ahmad Adnan Basri said the driver did not suffer any serious injuries from the assault.
The three Pakistani men who died in the accident have been identified as Zahir Nur Muhammad, 31; Shayan Mumtazali, 22 and Adil Noorullah, 33.
The three who were injured are Kamran Muhammad Wali, 26; Yasen Afzalsha, 19 and Salem Said Rasol, 23.
At the time, the six men were walking on a road shoulder towards a mosque for Aidilfitri prayers when the driver of Proton Saga crashed into them.