Student dies after falling from train in Sabah


The branch which caught the leg of the girl causing her to fall off the train.

KOTA KINABALU: A student died after being dragged about 50m following a fall from a train near Beaufort, some 95km from here on Monday afternoon.  

In the 1.40pm incident, the girl identified as Siti Intan Suraya Ambran, a Form Three student of SMK Entabuan Tenom, had gone up the train with her 19-year-old cousin from Beaufort to Tenom.  

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