Genting bus accident: Public appeal to identify remaining victims

Six out of 37 victims of the Genting Highlands bus tragedy had yet to be identified as none of their next-of-kin had come forward to identify the bodies.

Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr S. Subramaniam made an impassion plea to those with missing family members who had used Genting bus services on the fateful day to help identify the bodies at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital's (HKL) Forensic Department.

"The next-of-kin are advised to bring photos of their family members for identification purposes," he told reporters after visiting injured victims of the crash at HKL here, today.

He said HKL were working with the police to locate the next-of-kin of the victims - two men and four women - as no one had come forward to claim the bodies.

Commending on quick response from medical teams in attending to the crash victims, he said this reflected public hospitals high level of preparedness in the face of tragedy.

"We have four response teams comprising trained doctors and support staff equipped with adequate equipment to provide good treatment to crash victims.

"This shows that hospitals in the country are ready to face any eventualities and disasters," he said.

On injured passengers, he said they were recuperating well and beginning to undergo psychological treatment and counselling to overcome trauma due to the tragedy.

Meanwhile, Kuala Lumpur Hospital (HKL) issued an appeal for the next-of-kin of two victims who were killed in Wednesday's bus tragedy in Genting Highlands.

A HKL spokesman said one them was a fair skinned man likely to be a Chinese while the other is believed to be an African woman.

"The man is 170cm tall, has hands of a person probably doing manual work. He had on him a green keychain with two car keys, one believed to be of a Nissan model," he told reporters at HKL's mortuary today.

He also said the man wore a silver necklace, a grey T-shirt of the Spalding brand and green trousers worn over a pair blue boxer shorts.

The accident, the worst ever road disaster in the country, claimed 37 lives and left 16 others injured, some critically.

Meanwhile, as at noon today, the bodies of four of the victims had been claimed by their next-of-kin.

They were Loh Kim Lan, 78, Kwan Chin Yii, 22, Udamjit Singh (age not available) and Yap Moi, 60.

Yap Yop Peng, 57, who came to claim Yap Moi's body, said she only came to know about her sister's missing after her (Yap Moi's) employer told her that she did not turn up for work yesterday.

"I had not seen her for sometime. I doubted she would be a victim but when I checked, found out she had made a bank withdrawal at Genting Highlands.

"I came here after hearing about the tragedy and identified her as my elder sister. I could recognise her eyes and nose although she had multiple injuries," she said.

Photos of some of the personal effects found on the unidentified bodies can be found here.

Friday 23 August 2013

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