Three more Lombok earthquake victims return home tomorrow
Some of the Malaysian victims of the Lombok earthquake arrive at KLIA2 in Sepang March 19, 2019. — Picture by Shafwan Zaidon
They are Phua Poh Guat who will be boarding a Garuda flight and is expected to arrive in Sepang at 5.10 pm tomorrow while Wong Siew Lim and Lee Chai Beng are expected to take an AirAsia flight at 11.30pm. “We had a meeting with a team of doctors and a representative of the embassy. The patient's progress and plan for the next and last meeting is that the patients need to be stabilised for blood transfusion and this can be done,"said Dr Lalu.
All 22 Malaysians were reported to be at the Tiu Kelep Waterfall in Senaru when the quake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale struck East Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.
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