Batang Kali landslide: Nurul Azwani first victim to be buried

Family members carrying the remains of the late Nurul Azwani Kamarulzaman, a victim of a landslide incident at a camping site in Gohtong Jaya Batang Kali, to be buried at Taman Selaseh Islamic Cemetery.

KUALA LUMPUR: The body of one of the victims of the landslide tragedy at the Fathers' Organic Farm campsite in Gohtong Jaya, Batang Kali, was buried at the Raudhatul Sakinah Muslim Cemetery (KL-Karak) in Taman Selasih here at 10pm on Saturday (Dec 17).

The deceased's mother, Siti Esah Hassan, 53, said the remains of Nurul Azwani Kamarulzaman, 31, were taken to the cemetery after the funeral prayers at Abu Hurairah Mosque in Kampung Batu 5, Jalan Ipoh here.

According to Siti Esah, Nurul Azwani was the eldest of three siblings who worked as a canteen assistant at SJKC Mun Choong.

"She joined the camp because she was accompanying her employer, who is also a teacher at the school, and she (Nurul Azwani) had promised to return to the village after camping.

"On Thursday (Dec 15), a night before the incident, she had contacted me to say that she had bought a ticket to return home to Kelantan, which would have been for yesterday (Friday)," she said when met at the cemetery here on Saturday (Dec 17) night.

The deceased was one of the 24 victims who died in the landslide tragedy that occurred at 2.42am on Friday (Dec 16).

A total of nine victims are still missing, while another 61 have been rescued. - Bernama