Four of tahfiz students killed in Kuala Krai crash will be buried in single grave

KUALA KRAI: The remains of four of the seven tahfiz (religious) students killed in an accident involving a van in Kuala Krai, will be buried in a single grave at the compound of the Maahad Tahfiz Al Hashimi Kampung Tualang.
The founder of the religious school, Datuk 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 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 that 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 Ahmad Farhan Zulkifli, 14, 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, while seven were injured including five seriously, when the van they were travelling in skidded and plunged into a ravine, turned-turtle before crashing into the front of a rubber tapper's house at Km55 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. — Bernama