Malaysia

Nadma names six victims in Batang Kali landslide tragedy

They include a 9-year-old boy, five women

Updated 3 years ago · Published on 17 Dec 2022 2:55PM

Nadma names six victims in Batang Kali landslide tragedy
The National Disaster Management Agency says autopsies and identification of the remaining victims are still ongoing. – Angkatan Pertahanan Awam Malaysia Facebook pic, December 17, 2022

by The Vibes Team

KUALA LUMPUR – The names of five women and a child who died in the Batang Kali landslide have been released by the National Disaster Management Agency (Nadma).

The women are Lim Wei Xin, Hong Mei Jing, Nurul Azmani, Lai Lee Yin and Lai Lee Koo.

The child, identified as Tong Kai, was a 9-year-old boy.

Nadma in a statement said these were the victims identified as of 7am this morning.

It said that these six out of the current 21 dead were identified either by their next of kin or by their fingerprints.

It added that autopsies and identification of the remaining victims are still ongoing.

At 12pm today, police said in a press conference in Batang Kali that the bodies found did not have any personal identification documents with them and urged family members to come forward.

Nadma’s statement also released the names of eight survivors, five of whom are still warded and receiving treatment at Selayang Hospital, Kuala Lumpur Hospital and Kuala Kubu Bahru Hospital.

The women among them are Yam Lee Yen, 41, and Tan Ei Ein, 43.

The men still warded are Loh Teng Shui, 44, Choo Wai Lun, 34, and Ling Zi Xuan, 19.

Those discharged from hospital are a teenage boy Ng Wei Lun, 13, Mg Tan, a 34-year-old man, and Sandy Cheah Hui Kein, a 32-year-old woman.

23 have been found dead while 10 people are still missing in the massive landslide that hit the Father’s Organic Farm campsite in the pre-dawn hours of yesterday. A total of 94 victims were affected. – The Vibes, December 17, 2022

Editor’s note: this report has been amended to reflect a correction by Nadma to some of the names and genders of the survivors

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