Nurul Azwani first landslide victim to be buried

 

The funeral of landslide victim Nurul Azwani Kamarulzaman at the Raudhatul Sakinah Muslim Cemetery in Taman Selasih, Kuala Lumpur last night. (Bernama pic)

KUALA LUMPUR: The body of one of the victims of the landslide tragedy at the Fathers’ Organic Farm campsite in Gohtong Jaya, Batang Kali, was safely buried at the Raudhatul Sakinah Muslim Cemetery (KL-Karak) in Taman Selasih here, at 10pm.

The remains of Nurul Azwani Kamarulzaman, 31, were taken to the cemetery after the funeral prayers at the Abu Hurairah Mosque in Kampung Batu 5, Jalan Ipoh here.

According to her mother, Siti Esah Hassan, Nurul was the eldest of three siblings and she worked as a canteen assistant at SJKC Mun Choong.

“She joined the camp because she was accompanying her employer, who is also a teacher at the school.

“On the night before the incident, she had contacted me to say that she had bought a ticket to return to our hometown in Kelantan on Friday,” Siti Esah said when met at the cemetery here last night.

The deceased was one of the 24 victims who died in the landslide tragedy that occurred at 2.42am on Friday.

As of 9pm, a total of nine victims are still missing, while another 61 have been rescued. - FMT