GEORGE TOWN, Nov 19 – The victim’s Lau Sai Poh and Chen Yan funeral which happen this afternoon on 2:00pm at the Sri Saujana Flat in Lebuh Macallum. The cortege of the Lau Sai Poh, 62 and Chen Yan, 35, who perished in a pre-dawn fire that gutted their double-storey cluster house near Cecil Street on Wednesday, was leaved the house and cremated at Penang’s Batu Gantung Crematorium.
Some 100 close relatives and friends attended the funeral. The body of two other victims of the fire – Lim’s children Lim Yin Chun, 9 and Lim Jia Yiin, 8, was cremated this morning 11am at Penang’s Batu Gantung Crematorium.
The four victims perished in an early morning blaze that engulfed their two-storey home at Pintasan Cecil 5, Pengkalan Weld on Nov 15 at 6am. Lim, who is an engineer, was working at a factory in Bayan Lepas when his entire family perished in the fire. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. — PN
