Weak structure reason for car plunge incident at KB Mall

The Kelantan Police Chief SAC I Datuk Abdul Rahim Hanafi reported today that the reason for accident that took place at the KB Mall where the car plunge from the third floor car park was due to the weak structure of the retaining wall. He said “If the 1.8m wall had been built using bricks and reinforced steel, it would be impossible for the structure to give way like what had happened on Sunday. The 1.8m wall was built with bricks without any reinforcement and can collapse upon impact," It was reported that 2 students from Masterskills College of Kota Bahru, Siti Nor Amira Samsuddin, and Siti Nor Diana Azman, died when a car crashed into them in the concourse of the shopping mall. 2 other students were injured. Abdul Rahim added that “Preliminary investigations revealed that the retaining wall was built with bricks, without any steel reinforcement or concrete beam, normally found in such structures. Since the man was there during the incident, he can shed some light on the incident,"

Datuk Takiyuddin Hassan, the chairman of the Kelantan Tourism, Local Council and Culture said “Following Sunday's tragedy, a special meeting would be called to discuss safety of all shopping malls. This morning, Menteri Besar Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat visited the place where the incident happened and directed the Kota Baharu City Council Bandaraya Islam to hold an immediate meeting. We will call the Police, Fire and Rescue, Public Works Department and the KB Mall management for the meeting,"


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there is alot of stucture is week in malaysia,
like stadium , the one that collapse and many other.
this is because so many hand involve in managing the money
instead of working properly.
one person get the contract and another do the work as
sub contractor... this come to worst where the workers used is from
bangladesh and indonesia, which is lack of material mixing skill.
all they know is making money.. thats all.
in future maybe more building will going down.

the two innocent scholls in kampar perak also died becoz of this weak structure!


surely the engineers involved in this two projects must be PRODUCT(ENGINEERS) OF ITM AND UiTM.

THIS IS THE RESULT OR PRICE THE INNOCENT HAS TO PAY FOR KTUANAN MELAYU,MALAY QUOTA IN EDUCATION AND UNIVERSITY ENTRERENCE,BUMIPUTRA EQUITY AND BUMIPUTRA COMPANY PRIORITY FOR GOVERMENT TENDER AND PROJECT AWARDS!

Basically our engineers and architects
are not up to standatd for failing to design
multi-storey car park walls, columns and all
elements to take vehicle impact loads.

This is a design problem and the structural
engineer has failed in his professional duty
to ensure public safety. In US and UK he can
go to JAIL for this.