Kathmandu hospital to perform autopsy on Kedah APM director's remains


PETALING JAYA: The body of the late Kedah Civil Defence Force director Lt Kol Awang Askandar Ampuan Yaacub will be taken to a hospital in Kathmandu for a post-mortem examination and funeral arrangements, says the Foreign Ministry.

"The ministry, through the Embassy of Malaysia in Kathmandu, Nepal, is currently providing the necessary assistance to bring the body of the deceased down from Mount Everest to the hospital," it said in a statement on Saturday (May 20).

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