KUALA LUMPUR, March 5 -- Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB) has detained a foreign man suspected of attempting to steal railway cables near KM 37.478 along the Telok Gadong-Teluk Pulai sector yesterday evening.

The suspect was apprehended at about 6.45pm after two KTMB auxiliary police personnel on patrol in a cable theft hotspot spotted a man behaving suspiciously near the railway tracks.

"KTMB stressed that trespassing and damaging railway property are serious offences under the Railway Act 1991 and the Land Public Transport Act 2010, which provide for strict penalties including fines, imprisonment or both," the company said in a statement today.

"KTMB said it views any form of trespassing or attempted theft of rail infrastructure s...