Two RI workers die in Malaysia

Two RI workers die in Malaysia

MALAYSIA: Lightning struck and killed two Indonesian workers and seriously injured three others at a construction site in southern Malaysia, police said on Friday.

A police spokesman said on customary condition of anonymity that all five men were seated outside their makeshift home at a construction site near the city of Johor Bahru, 350 kilometers south of Kuala Lumpur, when the lightning hit. Drizzling rain was falling at the time.

The two men who died were aged 25 and 35, but they were yet to be identified, the spokesman said.

No further details were available about the other three men, who were hospitalized. -- AP