Bless their souls - 4 tahfiz students killed in crash to be buried in single grave

Bernama | June 2, 2017

The founder of the religious school says family members have given permission for the students' remains to be buried in the school compound.

KUALA KRAI: The remains of four of the seven tahfiz students killed in an accident involving a van in Kuala Krai will be buried in a single grave in the compound of the Maahad Tahfiz Al Hashimi Kampung Tualang.

The founder of the religious school, Adnan Hashim, said the remains of the other three students would be brought back by their families for burial in Bachok and Dabong in Kelantan, and Pattani in southern Thailand.

“The family members have given permission for the remains of these four students to be buried in the compound of the tahfiz school after the post-mortems are completed at the Kuala Krai Hospital,” he said when met at the Kuala Krai Hospital mortuary here today.

Adnan said the remains of Mohamad Hafiz Aimullah Mustafa, 18, Nik Shah Jehan Nik Azmi, 16, Nik Ahmed Daniel Ahmed Rithaudeen, 14, and Muhammad Hakimi Muhammad Dahlan, 17, would be buried in a single grave.

He said the remains of Muhammad Rahman Rozali, 18, would be buried in his home village, Kampung Tok Dosah, Bachok, while the remains of Ahmad Farhan Zulkifli, 14, would be buried in Kampung Seri Jaya, Dabong here, and the remains of Thai student, Sarifuddin Muhammad, would be buried in his hometown in Pattani.

In the 9.40am incident this morning, seven students were killed and seven others injured, five seriously, when the van they were travelling in skidded and plunged into a ravine.
It turned turtle before crashing into the front of a rubber tapper’s house at KM55 of Jalan Kuala Krai-Kota Bharu, near Kampung Telekung today.

The 12 students and two teachers were from the Maahad Tahfiz Al-Hashimi Kampung Tualang here.

And how it happen

KUALA KRAI: Seven tahfiz students were killed and seven others seriously injured when the van they were traveling in was involved in an accident in Jalan Kuala Krai-Kota Bharu in Kampung Telekong, here today.

Kelantan Fire and Rescue Department director Nazili Mahmood said the van skidded into a ditch before crashing into a house.

“All the male victims are from Pusat Tahfiz Al-Hashimi Kampung Tualang here. We are currently in the process of identifying the victims,” he said when contacted.

Nazili said they received a distress call about the accident at 9.45am and dispatched two engines with 12 firefighters to the scene.

“Upon arrival at the scene, firefighters found five victims trapped in the van while nine others were already taken out by members of the public,” he said.

He said the injured were rushed to the Kuala Krai Hospital for treatment, and the bodies to the same hospital for post-mortems.