General : Sarawak Government Mulls Assistance To Family Of MH17 Victims

KUCHING, Aug 20 (Bernama) — The Sarawak state government will consider extending assistance to the families of victims of the ill fated Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH17, said Chief Minister Tan Sri Adenan Satem.

However he did not commmit on the form of assistance to be given.

“We will consider that in due time,” he told reporters after officiating at the seminar on Forest Management Certification (Natural Forest) in Sarawak here Wednesday.

The remains of two crash victims are scheduled to arrive in the country on Friday and will be brought flown here shortly after the ceremony honouring the victims of the MH17 tragedy at the Bunga Raya Complex of Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang.

Adenan said their remains would be taken to Masjid Jamek, Petra Jaya here for funeral prayers before being taken to the Semariang Muslim cemetery here for burial.

Among the 43 Malaysians who perished in the tragedy were Tambi Jiee, 49, dan his wife Ariza Ghazalee, 46, and their four children Muhammad Afif, 19, Muhammad Afzal, 19, Marsha Azmeena, 15 and Muhammad Afruz, 13, from Semariang.

MAS flight MH17 was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine on July 17.

The Boeing 777, carrying 298 passengers and crew, was shot down, but until now no one had claimed responsibility.

— BERNAMA

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