Al Fatihah

Families Bury Landslide Victims

HULU LANGAT: A scene of sadness and grief enveloped the Dusun Nanding Muslim cemetery here where hundreds of people turned up to pay their last respects to seven of the 16 boys who died when a landslide hit an orphanage-cum-religious school.

Despite the blazing sun, the victims' families, friends, residents of Pekan Batu 14 and nearby villages as well as the public turned up to watch the funeral rites at the Sultan Hisammuddin Alam Shah mosque.

The first of the five bodies were brought in at 10.45am from Hospital Kuala Lumpur and the last two arrived two hours later.

The mosque was packed as the congregation performed the sembahyang jenazah (funeral prayers) soon after zohor prayers before the remains were buried at the cemetery.

The seven boys who were buried there were Dzahir Haziq Mohd Muin, 17; Mohd Azret Azahari, eight; Wan Ahmad Hasril Hazim, 11; Mohd Mustakim Mamat, 12; Mohd Zaid Azahari, 14; Mohd Imal Fahad, nine; and Mohd Hazim Sapri, 10.

The remains of the other nine victims were claimed by their relatives and taken to their respective hometowns for burial.



Many relatives were crying and sobbing as the bodies of the boys were laid on the ground. Idris Musa, the orphanage's principal, was too distraught to speak.