Rokiah Mahmud

A 33-year-old local man had a lucky escape after his car burst into flames on the Kuala Baram highway near the Miri-Brunei border, yesterday,

He was driving towards the Miri Immigration Control Post at around midnight, when the vehicle suddenly caught fire.

The man escaped unhurt before firefighters arrived at the scene.

The Miri Fire and Rescue Department said, “Our teams rushed to the scene after an emergency alert and found that the car is engulfed in flame.”