Tragedy Accident & By-election
Main article: Batu Sapi by-election, 2010
Batu Sapi MP Datuk Edmund Chong Ket Wah of Parti Bersatu Sabah died in a road accident in Kota Kinabalu on 09/10/2010. Edmund,54,was 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 Mercedes car at about 11.40am Saturday.
Chong was born on April 9, 1956 in Sandakan,and married to Linda Tsen Thau Lin and has four children.
He took the oath of office as MP after winning the Batu Sapi seat in the 2004 general election. A by-election was later held on November 4th,and PBS later nominates his wife, Datin Linda Tsen Thau Lin. PBS later successfully defended the seat,and she was later appointed as the new MP, replacing her late husband.
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