500 pay final respects to Boon Huat


.A Malaysia flag was placed on national hockey player Chua Boon Huat's casket as pallbearers comprising his close friends, coaches and team mates paraded some one kilometre from the family home in Taman Semabok Perdana in Malacca to the main entrance of the residence garden during the sombre send off on Monday.

MALACCA: Scores of family members, friends and teammates gave a grand but sombre sendoff for national hockey player Chua Boon Huat (below, left), who was killed in a car accident.

The wake was held at his family home in Taman Semabok Perdana. About 500 people, including national hockey players and representatives from the National Sports Institute, turned up to pay their last respects.

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