Nurse mourns her mountain guide fiance's death five years after deadly Mt Kinabalu quake


Jessica Veronica Sikta holding on to her deceased fiance's casket in the hearst before it heads to Valerian Joannes' final resting place in 2015.- ZULAZHAR SHBELEE / THE STAR

KOTA KINABALU: Time heals all wounds, they say. But for nurse Jessica Sikta, these five years after the deadly Mount Kinabalu quake on June 5,2015, have passed by without her pain of losing her fiance Valerian Joannes, easing.

“I still miss him dearly, it’s like this happened just yesterday, ” she said when contacted, Friday (June 5), in conjunction with the anniversary of the tragedy which claimed 18 lives including four mountain guides or malim gunung.

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