Transport Ministry to meet PM over compensation for next-of kin of MH370 victims


Michelle Gomes, daughter of Patrick Gomes who was the in-flight supervisor onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, comforts her son Rafael Gomes during its fifth annual remembrance event in Kuala Lumpur on March 3, 2019. - REUTERS/Lai Seng Sin/File Photo

PUTRAJAYA (Bernama): The Transport Ministry is expected to meet Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin next week to present a Cabinet paper on compensation to the next-of-kin of the victims onboard Malaysian Airlines MH370 which went missing on March 8, 2014.

Its secretary-general, Datuk Isham Ishak said the compensation would be an out-of-court settlement for the suits filed by the beneficiaries of the victims concerned against the Malaysian Government and related agencies.

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