A car crash occurred on Yangon-Mandalay Expressway this morning, killing a woman, initial local sources said.

A Toyota Wish driving from Yangon to Nay Pyi Taw along Yangon-Mandalay Expressway skidded and hit a Jersey barrier by the roadside at mile post No.89/0.

According to local aid organizations arriving there for help, a woman died and a man was injured.

Firefighters and a fire truck from Myochaung Expressway Fire Station went to the scene and sent the dead body and the injured man to Myochaung Station Hospital.