Saturday August 27, 2005
Paralysed mum mourns yet again
BY WANI MUTHIAH
KLANG: Twelve years ago, Khoo Bee was paralysed from the waist down after a car accident, but this was not the most tragic event in her life.
As a mother and wife, she has had to face the anguish of seeing two of her sons die in separate accidents and mourn the death of her husband just six months before their second son was killed.
Her husband Tong Kok Chin had died of a heart attack while
her second son Tong Swee Hong was killed in a car crash in 1997. He was 19.
Two days ago, her youngest son Tong Swee Meng, 24, died in an accident with four of his friends in Terengganu.
“My tears for my Swee Hong are yet to dry and now I have lost my Swee Meng as well,” Khoo, 50.
Swee Meng was in a car with Lee Cheong Soon, 22 (the driver), Pua Poh Ann, 24, Ang Kar Hor, 25, and See Boon Leong, 24, when it collided with a trailer early on Thursday morning at the 109th kilometre of the Jerangau-Jabor road near Al-Muktafi Billah Shah town.
When met at her home in Kapar yesterday, Khoo said her life had been filled with tragedy after her accident.
“I cannot take the pain anymore. Why did he (Swee Meng) have to die?
“He was so young, and had a wife and baby to care for,” said the mother of five between sobs.
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