[real-eyes] Blind friend drowns, the other missing
- From: "Duyahn Walker" <themusicman1@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 12:16:55 -0400
I got this from another list. This is sad to read about. Very very sad.
Duyahn
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From: "George Welington" <george_thomas007@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Blind friend drowns, the other missing
Blind friend drowns, the other missing
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Blind friend drowns, the other missing
By By MOHD YAAKOB YUSOF
22 May, 2007
THE two inmates of Gurney Training Centre for the Blind in Brickfi elds
were known to be the best of friends.
Chua Geok Kuan, 38, of Taman Cahaya in Ampang, and Ong Weng Fat, 23, of
Taman Intan Baiduri, Kuala Lumpur, were even known to have gone out
together at night.
They went out again together on Sunday night. But when they did not
return to the centre the following morning, offi cials of the Malaysian
Association for the Blind, which runs the centre, started to get worried
and lodged a missing persons report.
Little did they know that a witness had seen Chua jump off a pedestrian
bridge near the Tun Sambanthan monorail station into Sungai Klang the
night before. He drowned.
A police search and rescue team found Chua's body at 11am yesterday not
far from the spot where he jumped.
At Press time, Ong was still missing.
Brickfi elds police chief Assistant Commissioner Sulaiman Junaidi said
police received a call from the witness, a monorail worker, at 12.15am
yesterday and rescue personnel were sent to the scene.
"We were told that someone had jumped off the pedestrian bridge into the
river," he said.
Police, however, could not carry out a search and rescue operation
immediately because it was dark.
"The rescue team found Chua's body near the monorail station at 11am,
two hours after the operation began," Sulaiman said.
Chua's body was sent to Hospital Kuala Lumpur for a post-mortem.
Sulaiman said police received a report from the Gurney Training Centre
for the Blind at 9am yesterday, regarding the missing pair.
"Police are still not sure if Ong had jumped into the river as well.
"We will continue with our search and recovery operation to find Ong."
Sulaiman said police were investigating the case.
Malaysian Association for the Blind executive director George Thomas,
said he was shocked by the incident.
"Chua and Ong were known to be the best of friends. We have no clue as
to how this could have happened," he said.
Thomas said the two became close friends after Ong entered the training
centre last July.
He said Chua and Ong were known to have gone out together in the past.
"We started to worry about them when they didn't return on Sunday night.
When there was no sign of them, we lodged a report at the Brickfi elds
police station at 9am yesterday," he added.
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Regards,
George,
U.K.
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