KUALA LUMPUR: A 19-year-old youth died in a car crash on the Duke Highway near Setiawangsa, early this morning.

His friend, travelling together in the BMW car also sustained severe injuries in the 2.15am incident.

The deceased was identified as George Rahul Ariyanayakam who was driving the car with a female companion and believed to have lost control of the vehicle before it crashed and caught fire.