PETALING JAYA: Three students from Zara Qairina Mahathir’s school were among 60 people questioned over the 13-year-old’s death in Papar, Sabah.
Sabah education director Raisin Saidin said none of the three students had been expelled, Sinar Harian reported.
“They are also not linked to any VIPs or to the police,” he was quoted as saying.
Raisin said the state education department is leaving the matter to the police for a thorough investigation.
Zara, a Form 1 student, was found unconscious at 4am on July 16 after she allegedly fell from the third floor of her school hostel in Papar.
She died the next day at Queen Elizabeth I Hospital in Kota Kinabalu.
Sabah police commissioner Jauteh Dikun said Bukit Aman is reviewing the case, and police have not ruled out the possibility that the teen was bullied.