ALOR GAJAH: Tai Seng Fui could only say ‘thank you’ repeatedly when four members of his family were found by the search and rescue team (SAR).
The 63-year-old said he was still coming to terms with accepting the reality of losing his 35-year-old son Tan Chang Lin, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren in the blink of an eye after they were swept away in a tragic landslide at the Father’s Organic Farm campsite on Dec 16.
“Thank you to everyone who helped, including the policemen tasked with the solemn journey of transporting the bodies from Kuala Lumpur for the cremation ceremony (here) this morning,” he said when met at Taman Machap Indah in Machap Baru here on Friday (Dec 23).
Earlier, the bodies of Tan and his wife Yu Siew Pay, 34, and their two children, seven-year-old boy Tai Jing Key and four-year-old girl Tai Jing Rou, were brought back to Melaka from Sungai Buloh Hospital around 11.32 am Friday.
The bodies were then taken to the Huai En Memorial Park at Jelutong in Batu Berendam for cremation, while the ashes are expected to be brought back to their residence in Taman Machap Indah tomorrow for rites of last respects until Dec 29, before they are interred at the Eternal Berhad Memorial Park, Selandar, in Jasin.
In the meantime, Melaka Yang di-Pertua Negeri Tun Mohd Ali Rustam visited the two victims’ families accompanied by the state Unity, Information, Human Resources and Consumer Affairs Committee chairman Ngwe Hee Sem, state Women’s Affairs, Family Development and Welfare Committee chairman Datuk Kalsom Noordin and Melaka PKR vice chairman Ginie Lim Siew Lin.
Mohd Ali spent an hour speaking to and consoling the two families while also delivering a personal donation to them. – Bernamna