Suhakam Children’s Commissioner Professor Noor Aziah Mohd Awal is pleading with the Education Ministry and local authorities to work together so that scenes of children crossing a precarious bridge in Sandakan, Sabah will become a thing of the past.

This came after reports of several students from SK Sibuga Besar in Sandakan, who were seen crossing the dilapidated suspension bridge on their first day of school, went viral.

"This affirms the discovery during a recent monitoring visit in Sandakan that...