MERSING: Three staff of a private religious school died when the car they were travelling in collided with a four-wheel drive vehicle at Kilometre 23, Jalan Nitar-Mersing here at 1.40pm today.

They were Sodiq Abu Bakar, 40, and Shamjuddin Romani, 59, who both died at the scene, while Mohd Khairy Abd Jaafar, 37, died while on the way to the Mersing Hospital.