[Nation] MH17: Day of Mourning

KUALA LUMPUR: According to the Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai, the remaining bodies of two Malaysians killed on board flight MH17 will arrive in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, August 24. A press conference at the Nirvana Memorial Centre here on Friday was told by Liow that the Malaysian government was waiting for authorities in the Netherlands to release the remains of another Malaysian, with further details to be announced on Saturday.
In addition, he said the remains expected to return on Sunday would most likely arrive in the early morning and claims that authorities in the Netherlands were holding on to the remains of a Malaysian originally intended to be flown back on Friday for investigation purposes since the remains of 30 Malaysians had already been identified but had not been released yet.
A minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Datuk Dr Wee Ka Siong, added that as the remains were identified as Malaysian, Dutch authorities will determine if an autopsy is to be conducted on the remains. The bodies of a total of 20 Malaysians who were killed in MH17 arrived in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday and Sunday and were sent safely to their homwtowns accordingly: Putrajaya (2), Kuala Lumpur (4), Selangor (4), Negeri Sembilan (2), Johor (3), Perak (3) and Sarawak (2).

Head Imam of Masjid Usamah Bin Zaid Mosque, Wangsa Maju, Murshidi Abdul Hamid Al-Hafiz led the funeral prayer for MH17 stewardess Hamfazlin Sham Mohamed Arifin.

Soldiers carry a coffin with the remains of a Malaysian victim of flight MH17 during a ceremony at the Bunga Raya complex at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang on August 22, 2014. - AFP

sources from: http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/08/22/MH17-Remains-of-two-Malaysians-arriving-Sunday/

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