KOTA KINABALU: A sweep of the railway tracks just 25 minutes before Wednesday’s deadly train plunge into the Padas River in the interior had found nothing amiss.
“It is a very unfortunate incident. Our men did not see any warning signs of instability that indicated an imminent collapse of the tracks along the river bank,” Sabah Railway Department director James Wong said yesterday.
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