MH17 crash: Family of six from Kuching perish in ill-fated flight

KUCHING: An entire family from Kuching - who were on their way back from Kazakhstan transiting via Amsterdam - perished on board the ill-fated Flight MH17. 

Tambi Jiee, 49, from Kampung Gobielt, was with his wife Ariza Ghazalee, 47, and four children - Mohd Afif, 19, Mohd Afzal, 17, Marsha Azmeena, 15, and Mohd Afruz, 13.

The family was returning from Kazakhstan, where Tambi, a Shell employee, had been working for about three years.