JOHOR, Dec 5 – Tunku Laksamana Johor Tunku Abdul Jalil Sultan Ibrahim passed away at about 7pm today at Sultanah Aminah Hospital due to liver cancer, said Johor Royal Court Council. It is learnt that members of the Johor royal family were at his bedside when the 25-year old Tunku Jalil breathed his last.
Messages of condolences have begun pouring out including a tweet from Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak. Meanwhile, other cabinet members as Defence Minister Hishamuddin Hussein, Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai and Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin, also took to Twitter to extend their condolences. Besides that, condolences were also posted by the Johor Southern Tigers Facebook page, which is often used by as the official mouthpiece of Johor crown prince Tunku Ismail.
Tunku Laksamana Johor Tunku Jalil was born in Johor Baru on July 5, 1990 to Sultan Ibrahim and Permaisuri Johor Raja Zarith Sofiah Binti Almarhum Sultan Idris Shah. The fourth child of Sultan Ibrahim Ismail, Tunku Abdul Jalil was said to have been diagnosed with the stage four liver cancer in August last year and had undergone liver transplant in China. In his memory, the Sultan of Johor has set up the Tunku Laksamana Cancer Foundation to assist cancer patients in the country.
