Compiled by SHERIDAN MAHAVERA, TAN SIN CHOW AND R.ARAVINTHAN
RELATIVES of those buried at the Selat Klang Muslim cemetery are waiting patiently for the authorities to complete moving the remains of their deceased loved ones to a new burial site.
About 90 of the graves are being relocated to a new burial site as the land will be used for the Selangor section of the East Coast Rail Line (ECRL), Sinar Harian reported.
Although Sofia Mohamad, 57, was sad that the remains of her uncle was among those affected, she was surprised and relieved when told of the condition of his body.
“I was not allowed to go in to observe the removal process. But the workers told me that his body had straightened. I thank God for that,” she said.
Her beloved uncle, who had raised her, died due to old age.
At the time of his death, his legs were crooked because he always folded them while he was lying down.
“For a year, he was unable to straighten his legs while lying down because of old age,” Sofia said, adding that when her uncle passed away in 2022, his knees were bent.
The paper said as of Jan 8, about 70 of the 90 graves had been moved to the new site by contractors who were supervised by the Selangor Islamic Affairs Department.
The decision to move the graves was made last October by the Selangor government.
> Two wild male elephants which had been eating the crops of residents of Kampung Pulai in Gua Musang, Kelantan, have been caught by the Wildlife Protection and National Parks Department (Perhilitan).
State Perhilitan director Mohamad Hafid Rohani said seven staff members from the Elephant Trapping Unit successfully tracked and captured them on Tuesday, Berita Harian reported.
They will be transferred to a more suitable habitat by the National Elephant Conservation Centre in Kuala Gandah in Lanchang, Pahang.
“We have also advised the farmers of the village to install anti-elephant devices such as blue LED lights along the paths that elephants take,” said Mohamad Hafid since the village is close to the Batu Papan permanent forest reserve.
Farmers have also been advised to install electrified fences or trenches around their plots to deter elephants since there are about 30 of the wild animals in the forest reserve.
(The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.)