00:01A Pakatan Harapan representative for the Asahan state seat in Melaka has died in a road accident.
00:08Alur Gajah PKR Division Vice Chief J. Samivil Jairas was killed outside the
00:13coalition's main operations centre in Asahan on Wednesday.
00:17He was representing Pakatan's Asahan candidate Dinesh Pallasubramaniam,
00:21who has confirmed he is safe and denied being involved in the accident
00:26following confusion on social media.
00:28Pakatan's election department expressed condolences to Samivil's family,
00:32describing his death as a major loss to his loved ones, friends and PKR members.
00:38Prime Minister Datuk Sri Anwar Ibrahim also paid tribute to Samivil in a Facebook post,
00:43describing him as a dedicated and long-serving PKR member.
00:48PKR has urged the public to respect the family's privacy as they make funeral arrangements.
00:57K. Samivil Jairas
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