TUMPAT: Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTM) Berhad is conducting an investigation and has suspended an employee after the Shuttle Timuran 51 train did not stop at Kuala Gris, Kelantan, this morning.
In a statement issued on its Facebook page, KTM confirmed Shuttle Timuran No 51 train, which left Tumpat station at 4.05am, did not stop at Hentian Kuala Gris at 7.08am.
“KTM takes a serious view of the incident as it involved 100 students of SMK Dabong, which commenced its school session today,” it said in a statement.
KTM also apologised to students, parents and the school over the incident.
“Improvements will be made and KTM assures that this incident will not recur in future,” said the statement.
Earlier, the media had reported that about 100 students of SMK Dabong could not attend class on the first day of the third term after the train taking them to the school failed to stop at the station.