Tourist’s death ‘one in a million’


KOTA KINABALU: The death of German tourist Victoria Poulsen, who fell from the 4,095m Mount Kinabalu, was a “one in a million” incident, said Sabah Parks chairman Tengku Datuk Dr Zainal Adlin Tengku Mahmud.

He said accidents or mishaps, even fatal ones, were rare on the mountain, which has attracted over a million people who had climbed up safely for the past 35 years.

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