KTM train derailed

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Bernama - Saturday, May 3

KUALA LUMPUR, May 3 (Bernama) -- Keretapi Tanah Melayu's (KTM) Intercity Services for the southern sector was disrupted today, following the derailment of its Express Rakyat train from Butterworth to Singapore at the 465km Seremban- Rembau stretch.

In a press statement here, KTM said that following the incident at 3.45pm, four of its intercity services - the Ekspres Gading Emas (Kuala Lumpur-Tumpat), Ekspres Wau (Kuala Lumpur-Tumpat), Ekspres Sinaran Petang (Singapore-Kuala Lumpur) and Ekspres Senandung Malam (Kuala Lumpur-Singapore) were affected.

As a result, it has cancelled its Ekspres Gading Emas service, while passengers from the other services will be transshipped by buses from the affected routes. The passengers for Express Wau will be sent from Kuala Lumpur to Kuala Lipis before continuing their journey by train, while for Ekpres Sinaran Petang, the passengers will be transshipped between Tampin and Seremban before resuming the journey by train.

Meanwhile, Ekspres Senandung Malam passengers will be transshipped from Kuala Lumpur to Gemas to resume their journey by train, it said. KTM said these arrangements were subject to change and passengers who wished to change their date of travel or obtain a full refund might do so at any KTM Intercity Services counter.

Passengers may check for updates and can contact the nearest KTM Call Centre at 03-22671200 until 2am Sunday, for the latest development on the its services to the southern sector, it said. KTM also apologised to all passengers for any inconvenience caused.

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Channel NewsAsia - 2 hours 3 minutes ago

SINGAPORE: Confusion reigned when the KTM train derailed near Seremban Saturday afternoon, said a Singaporean who was onboard.

Mr Hong Ngar Choong said the Express Rakyat train with 210 passengers, jumped track around 3.30pm after pulling out of the Seremban station.

He said help was not immediately available and he made his own way back to Singapore after getting out.

The incident resulted in the death of the driver and injury to 12 passengers, including six Singaporeans.

The injured were ferried to a hospital where they received outpatient treatment.

Mr Hong, who was with a group of seven Singaporeans, told Channel NewsAsia he was not injured.

"There was a fair bit of confusion inside our coach, and then there were many opinions — whether to stay in the coach or get out of the coach. Because the coach was slanting, so some were afraid that if we were to move to one side, the whole coach may just roll down," he said.

"We waited for a while but there were no instructions from the so—called KTM authorities, so the passengers decided to just carry their own luggage and... climb down the coach." — CNA/ac

shinkansen SG

Lack of maintainance of the track which resulted the accident?

That time while I was taking the train and pass by this area, I saw the track sleeper look old like did not replace and why did they (KTM) use wooden sleeper instead of cement type. Cement sleeper require less maintainance while wooden one need.