Fever kept UPSI student off ill-fated bus
KUALA TERENGGANU: A fever kept a Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI) student off the ill-fated chartered bus which was involved in an accident early this morning.
The student had been hospitalised the day before and could not board the bus which left Terengganu the night before, his brother revealed.
"My brother is one of the UPSI students who was supposed to be on the bus," said the student's sibling in a Facebook post.
"But he was admitted to Jerteh Hospital in Besut yesterday afternoon due to a fever."
Earlier, 14 UPSI students and a bus assistant were confirmed dead and seven others seriously injured when the bus they were travelling in overturned along Jalan Jeli-Gerik near Tasik Banding early this morning.
The chartered bus was carrying 42 UPSI students who were travelling from Terengganu back to the university's campus in Tanjung Malim.
Preliminary investigations indicate that the bus hit a Perodua Alza from behind before the driver lost control and the vehicle skidded off the road.
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