Without mincing his words, Perikatan Nasional chairperson Muhyiddin Yassin referred to the recent fatal knife attack incident in a school in Petaling Jaya as “a slap on the face of the national education system”.

Expressing condolences to the family who lost their daughter, he urged Putrajaya to establish an independent committee to investigate the real cause of the tragic incident.

The committee, he said, should also...