PAPAR: The Prime Minister's Department (Sabah, Sarawak Affairs and Special Duties) will help bring home the remains of the Kedah Civil Defence Force (APM) director Lieutenant Colonel Awang Askandar Ampuan Yaacub, who died during the Malaysia Everest 2023 mission.
Minister Datuk Armizan Mohd Ali said this was to fulfil his family's wish to bury him in his hometown in Benoni here.
Awang Askandar, 56, died during the mission to conquer Mount Everest, and the matter was confirmed by APM chief commissioner Aminurrahim Mohamed after receiving notification from ME 2023 chef de mission, Tan Sri Dr Salleh Mohd Nor. "We at the Prime Minister's Department are all aware that the deceased was a very committed individual. He had been planning to conquer Everest for a long time.
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