Hundreds attend memorial at SJKC Mun Chong for Batang Kali landslide victims

 

Pupils, teachers, members of the school’s Parent-Teachers Association and parents began entering the school’s main assembly hall at 8.30am. - NSTP/EIZAIRI SHAMSUDIN.

KUALA LUMPUR: Over 600 people are present at SJKC Mun Choong for a memorial service to honour the victims of the Dec 16 Batang Kali landslide.

Pupils, teachers, members of the school's Parent-Teachers Association and parents began entering the school's main assembly hall at 8.30am.

School pupils, dressed in their uniforms, penned their messages of condolences and well wishes on cards which will be hung on a wishing tree placed at a pictorial exhibition area.

Before the memorial began, a minute of silence was observed in remembrance of the 11 victims associated to the school, which included teachers.

The landslide near Father's Organic Farm in Gohtong Jaya, Batang Kali at 2.42am on Dec 16 had claimed the lives of 31 people out of a list of 92 campers.

The last body recovered in the multi agency search and rescue operations was that of Eng Shao Qi, the school's Year 5 pupil on Dec 24 at 4.53pm.

He was the son of the canteen operator at the school. The landslide also took the lives of the boy's father, identified as Gary Eng, and his sister. - NST