21-Year-Old UniMAP Student From Sungai Ara, Penang Falls To His Death!!

As reported by The Star, a 21-year-old University Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) student passed away after falling from the seventh floor of the University campus hostel at about 2.50pm on April 19.

The first-year UniMAP engineering student, Goh Xin Xi from Sungai Ara, Bayan Lepas in Penang, slipped and fell when he tried to get into his hostel through a window after forgetting to bring his keys out.



Goh’s body had been sent to the Tuanku Fauziah Hospital for a post-mortem, and police are investigating the case, shared by UniMAP’s vice-chancellor Datuk Zul Azhar Zahid Jamal.

“The family of the victim has been informed and his father is on his way from Penang.

“The university is saddened by the tragedy, and will reach out to his family to lend their support in any way it can,” he said.

Solemn Morning For The Friends And Family Of Goh Xin Xi As They Pay Their Last Respects To Him!!

Sadness hung in the air as families of Goh Xin Xi, 21, who fell to his death while trying to climb through the window of his seventh-floor hostel, came to pay their last respects to him.
According to The Star, more than 40 students of University Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), who came in its university bus and clad in dark blue university formal shirts, joined the final rites prayers quietly.
Surely Goh was very well loved by his fellow uni-mates. He was sent off in a simple solemn ceremony before his body was taken to be cremated at the Mount Erskine Crematorium.
It started drizzling when the hearse left the Leng How Koe funeral parlor in Paya Terubong, Penang.
The Coverage sends our deepest condolences to family and friends of Goh Xin Xi, may his soul rest in peace.