Families struggle to accept loss


Too painful: Family members of the victims at the forensic department of Hospital Shah Alam. — CHAN TAK KONG/The Star

SHAH ALAM: Grief lay heavy outside the Hospital Shah Alam mortuary as family members of the Port Klang boat tragedy victims gathered.

Some were seen weeping openly, while others struggled to contain their emotions.

Though approached by reporters, they only briefly acknowledged the tragedy and declined to comment further.

The remains of two victims, Cheu Son Hin, 50, and Fong Yong Sen, 29, were released from the hospital yesterday afternoon.

Cheu, believed to have been the boat’s captain, was taken to his home in Aman Perdana at around 1.35pm.

Fong’s body was released at about 3.15pm and brought to a funeral parlour in Pandamaran, Klang.

The remains of a third victim, three-year-old Darren Gan, are still being held at the hospital’s forensic department.

The child’s parents, Gan Hon Tat, 32, and Careen Man, 29, from Klang Utama, remain missing.

It is understood that the bodies of the three recovered victims arrived at the hospital at 11.45pm on Friday.

Media personnel had been stationed outside the mortuary since early yesterday morning.

The sole survivor of the incident is 17-year-old Alvin Chang Yan Qin.

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