A 27-YEAR-OLD Indonesian man has been remanded for four days to assist in investigations into a hit-and-run case that resulted in the death of an Immigration Department officer at KM83.4 (north-bound) of the North-South Expressway on Sunday.

Kuala Muda district police chief Zaidy Che Hassan said the suspect was arrested after he presented himself to the Traffic investigation and Enforcement Department at the Sungai Petani police headquarters at 6.30pm yesterday.

The suspect said he fled from the scene of the accident because he did not have a valid driver’s licence and feared that the public would beat him up.

“The remand order is from today. The man lives in Pokok Sena and has been in the country for about seven years,” he said.

According to Zaidy, checks also found that the Proton Wira car driven by the suspect belonged to his brother-in-law who lives in Kuala Lumpur.

In the 9.30am incident last Sunday, Immigrations deputy assistant director Muhammad Nizam Samsudin, 46, died at the scene due to severe head injuries after his motorcycle was hit by a car.

His colleague Zaili Nizam Muhammad, 43, who was riding another motorcycle broke his leg after he crashed into Nizam’s motorcycle. – Bernama, September 6, 2022.