KUALA LUMPUR – Batu Sapi MP Datuk Edmund Chong Ket Wah has died in a road accident in Kota Kinabalu today, triggering the country’s 13th by-election since Election 2008. He was 54.
Chong is believed to have been riding a Kawasaki 750 bike along the Sembulan-Tanjung Aru road when he was involved in a crash with an on-coming Mercedez car at about 11.40am today.
The PBS politician (picture) first became an MP in 2004 when he won the Batu Sapi seat unopposed after his opponent withdrew.
He kept the seat in Election 2008, polling 9,479 votes against independent Chung Kwong Wing who took 5,771 votes.
Chong was born in Sandakan and is a mechanical engineer by profession. He leaves behind a wife, Linda Tsen Thau Lin, and four children.
In PBS, he is also the treasurer-general and the PBS Elopura division chief.
