Published: Sunday November 1, 2009 MYT 6:37:00 PM
Updated: Sunday November 1, 2009 MYT 6:38:23 PM
Perak PR sets up panel to probe bridge tragedy
By IVAN LOH
IPOH: Perak Pakatan Rakyat has set up its own committee to investigate the Kuala Dipang bridge collapse that claimed three young lives.
Ousted State Speaker V. Sivakumar, who leads the ad hoc investigation team, said input by a third party was needed to ensure that the victims’ families were given a fair report of the tragedy.
“It is unjust to have the Education Ministry investigate the matter as it is the party in question,” he told reporters Sunday.
Last Monday night, 22 pupils attending a 1Malaysia camp in Kuala Dipang, fell into the Kampar River while crossing the bridge.
N. Dina Deve and M. Devatharshini, both 11, and 12-year-old V. Divyashree, drowned in that disaster.
Sivakumar said the committee would conduct its own investigation with the help of a panel of experts that included land surveyors, engineers and lawyers.
Also on the committee are Teja assemblyman Chang Lih Kang, Pasir Pinji assemblyman Thomas Su and Titi Serong assemblyman Dr Khalil Idham Lim Abdullah.
“We will have the report ready in two weeks," he said.
Chang said he hoped the various government departments would cooperate with the committee in its aim to seek the truth.
Calling on Barisan Nasional to set aside its differences, he said Pakatan was investigating the tragedy on compassionate grounds and not to gain political mileage.
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