BATU PAHAT, March 23 -- Two Singaporean motorcyclists were killed, while four others were seriously injured, after a container lorry crashed into a big bike convoy at Kilometer 111.4 (northbound) of the North-South Expressway, near Yong Peng, here early this morning.

It was learned that the Singaporeans, on their high-powered motorcycles, were on a convoy to have their sahur meal in Muar before tragedy struck.

Police and emergency services received a distress call from the public at 3am.

Batu Pahat police chief Assistant Commissioner Ismail Dollah said the accident was believed to have occurred when eight men were riding their high-powered motorcycles in a convoy from Singapore to Muar.

"As the convoy was travelling northbound, one of...