Saturday June 22, 2013 MYT 11:00:39 PM

Malaysian student killed when 4WD plunges into ravine in Jordan, four others injured

PETALING JAYA: A Malaysian student was killed while four others were injured in Jordan when a four-wheel drive vehicle they were in plunged into a ravine between Petra and Aqabah, about 320km from the capital Amman at around 5pm (Jordanian time) on Friday.

The deceased was identified as Sumaiyah Romli, a first-year astronomy and physics student at the University College London in Britain.

The four injured students are Muhammad Nazirul Mubin Nasruddin, a third-year economics and Islamic banking student at Yarmouk University in Jordan; Nur Ili Dayana Mazlan, a fourth-year student at the London School of Economics; Mohamad Shukri Alias, a third-year Islamic studies student at Yarmouk University and Humairak Ibrahim, a third-year economics and Islamic banking student at Yarmouk University.

Sumaiyah, the deceased, and Muhammad Nazirul are Public Service Department (JPA) scholars while Nur Ili Dayana is a Bank Negara Malaysia scholar.

The injured students were brought to the Queen Rania Abdullah hospital in Petra for treatment.

The Malaysian Education Department and the JPA are in the process of arranging the return of the Sumaiyah's remains to Malaysia.

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Saturday June 22 2013.

Al Fatihah.