#MH17 | Malaysia’s High Commissioner to Australia Zainal Abidin Ahmad recited verse 34 from the Quran’s Chapter 31 luqman at the national memorial service in Melbourne today to remember the 298 people who perished when the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was believed downed by a missile over eastern Ukraine on July 17.
More than 1,800 mourners gathered at St Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne to remember the 38 Australian citizens and residents, including several Malaysians, who were killed in the disaster.
Mourners including many relatives and friends of the deceased Malaysians who flew in from Kuala Lumpur for the service, shed tears as they placed yellow wattleseed branches on a wreath to remember the dead.
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