Sombre mood at Nirvana Memorial Park

KUALA LUMPUR: It was a solemn affair at the Nirvana Memorial Park in Sungai Besi.

The family of the late MH17 passenger Ng Qing Zheng, 30, wept and clasped their hands in prayer as they watched the casket lowered from the hearse.

Ng’s brother-in-law, who declined to be named, said the family would be bringing his remains to Shah Alam before the funeral rites and cremation tomorrow.

Ng’s body was among the remains of four victims that were carried in a convoy to the park yesterday.

Day of mourning: NV Multi Asia Group (Nirvana) founder and managing director Datuk Kong Hon Kong watching as a casket is carried into the memorial park.

The other victims were Foo Ming Lee and couple Paul Rajasingam Sivagnanam and Mabel Anthony Samy.

Foo’s remains are scheduled to be brought to the Nirvana Memorial Park in Shah Alam for cremation tomorrow.

Nirvana Memorial Centre deputy general manager Teh Khai Lin said there would be a Buddhist ceremony for both Foo and Ng.

The remains of Paul Rajasingam and his wife arrived within minutes of each other.

Their nine-year-old son, Matthew Ezekial Sivagnanam, also perished in the tragedy but his body had yet to be identified.

Their family members, who have hired their own undertakers to handle the remains, are reportedly waiting for the authorities to identify the boy’s body before deciding on the next course of action.

At the Xiao En Centre in Cheras, MH17 passenger Elisabeth Ng Lye Ti’s eldest sister arrived carrying the urn containing her ashes.

Ng, 30, her sister Shi Ing, 33, and the latter’s one-year-old son Lee Jian Han were on Flight MH17.

A Xiao En staff member said Ng’s parents Ng Pae Soon, 67 and his wife Tan Ah Chin, 62 were not present yesterday, but would be at the centre when all the three bodies were there.

In Klang, the ashes of stewardess Angeline Premila Rajandran’s were taken to her home in Bukit Tinggi.

It is learnt that the family will be holding a wake tonight.

In Shah Alam, the family and friends of passenger Karamjit Singh, 54, gathered at the Nirvana Memorial Park.

His wife Harbinder Kaur, 52 fought hard to hold back her tears, as her two sons Amarpal and Melvinderjit Singh held her hands tight.

In grief: Harbinder holding the Jalur Gemilang as Amarpal looks on. — Bernama

Karamjit’s childhood friend Kulvinder Singh, 50, said Karamjit was very active in organising national level camps for Sikh youths every year in the past decade and would often call from Nigeria, where he worked, to ask about the preparations of the camps.

Kulvinder said during the camps, Karamjit would be the first one to wake up at 2.30am and prepare tea for the participants.

“At night when everyone slept, he would wash the toilets. That is the side of Karamjit that people did not know,” he said.

Karamjit’s ashes would be scattered in the sea in Port Klang today.

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