GEORGE TOWN, Nov 16 – MCA president Liow Tiong Lai and his deputy Wee Ka Siong paid their last respects at the wake for Tanjung MCA Youth chief Lim Swee Bok family at Sri Saujana Flats, Macallum St Ghaut, here this morning.
During the press conference with MCA leader, Swee Bok declined all offers to pay for his family’s funeral expenses. He said he appreciated the kind gestures by the state government and the MCA.
“Due to religious and cultural practices, please kindly allow me to take full responsibility and pay for the funeral expenses of my family. I am sorry and I hope to seek the understanding of everyone that I am committed to do whatever is necessary for the family I lost,” he said.
In the 6am tragedy yesterday, a fire broke out at Swee Bok’s house in Pintasan Cecil 5 off Cecil St Ghaut, killing his mother Lau Sai Poh, 62, wife Chen Yen, 35, son Lim Yin Chun, 9, and daughter Lim Jia Yiin, 8.
Swee Bok, an engineer at a factory in Bayan Lepas, was working the midnight shift at the time of the fire. Firefighters managed to control the blaze 30 minutes after arriving at the scene at 6.17am. The fire was put out about 7.10am. About 60 per cent of the house was razed. He also lost his father to cancer about two weeks ago. — PN
