KUCHING – Toh Puan Norkiah @ Rokiah Bagong, wife of former Sarawak Yang di-Pertua Negeri Tun Abang Muhammad Salahuddin Abang Barieng, died at Sarawak General Hospital today of a brain haemorrhage.
She was 72.
According to one of her children, Norkiah breathed her last about noon today.
Abang Muhammad Salahuddin, 99, and other family members were by Norkiah’s side when she died.
Meanwhile, the Sarawak Public Communications Unit at the Chief Minister’s Department said Norkiah was laid to rest at Samariang Muslim Cemetery in Petra Jaya here this evening. – Bernama, April 14, 2021
