IPOH: Private Nurul Wahida Yunos and Ranger Siti Hajar Yakub, who were killed in the parachute tragedy in Langkawi on Sunday, were laid to rest with full military honours.
General worker Mohd Yusof Leman remains shocked that his daughter Nurul Wahida was killed in the exercise.
Mohd Yusof, 52, from Tanjung Malim, wants to know why his eldest daughter was even included in the exercise as she was a junior who had joined the army just two years ago.
He said she had called early Sunday morning to tell him that she “could not make it” for the jump.
“I was surprised she went ahead with the jump,” said the former serviceman. He said he last saw her during Hari Raya.
Nurul Wahida, 20, of Kampung Sungai Dara in Tanjung Malim, drowned along with Trooper Raimond Duncan from Simunjan, Sarawak, and Siti Hajar from Masjid Tanah, Malacca.
They were among 18 paratroopers who were blown off course. Some of them plunged into the sea while the others landed hard on the Langkawi airport's tarmac.
Mohd Yusof said her childhood dream was to become a paratrooper. She was buried at the Tanah Perkuburan Islam Kampung Sungai Dara, Tanjung Malim, at 4am.
Meanwhile, it was also a sombre scene at the Jalan Hujan Panas Islamic cemetery in Masjid Tanah where Siti Hajar was laid to rest at 4.20am yesterday, reports STEVEN DANIEL.
Her parents, Yakub Keling, 56, and Rogayah Baba, 48, and fiancé Abdul Suffi Mohd Yusof sprinkled rose water and flowers after the ceremony.
Abdul Suffi said Siti Hajar had sent him a strange SMS two days before the accident.
“If anything happens to me, my jewellery is in a locker at the Terendak Camp, motorcycle key in the machine’s boot and if there is an accident, tell father to claim army insurance,” she said in the SMS, according to the 24-year-old prison officer in Penur, Pahang.
Abdul Suffi said he last saw Siti Hajar in early November before leaving to attend a course in Taiping. They had planned to wed in March
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