7 January 2012
I came to The Rock. Yes, I drop in to visit The Rock while on the way to Kenyalang Park. It was 2005 when I last came here.
In these 6 years The Rock remain save and secure while the near by areas gone through changes in the name of development.
While on The Rock I notice opposite the road was a row of flowers neatly placed along the cement block on drainage way. Flower for the dead. Some sort of accident must have happened here recently.
And true enough, that afternoon in friend's house in BDC, they talked about a recent flash flood that sweep away 2 young life. The body were still unfound.
The incident was a heroic story..........................
5th January 2012 Thursday 7:00 AM, SMK Batu Lintang student Kho, 19, and petrol station employee Herman, 28, were swept away by swift-flowing water in a monsoon drain.
That morning, sections of Kuching City were inundated by flash floods.
The Upper Form 6 girl was walking to a bus stop at Jalan Rock after her car stalled in the flood when she slipped and fell into the swollen drain.
Herman jumped into the drain together with an off duty fireman to rescue Kho. Herman is a non-swimmer, and was swept away with the girl.
An extensive search involving the Fire and Rescue Services Department, police and Civil Defense Department with rescuers utilizing boats and jet skis to scour the length of Sungai Maong and its tributaries in the hope of locating the missing pair.
Below 2 photos from : http://miritodaynews.blogspot.com/
On 05 Jan 2012 early morning, Kho Yong Qi uses the short cut from SMK Batu Lintang to Rock Road where the car stuck in a flash flood from a massive down pour of rain.
She abandoned the car that was stuck in flood (see photo above ) and walked in flooded water over to a bus station 100 meters from Shell station to wait for her mother to pick he up.
At this time the road surface at Shell Station was also flooded. The high level of water makes it hard to differentiate between solid road and water drain. (see photo below).
Herman Sinas who work at this shell station saw Kho was struggling in the water. He jumped in to rescue. Both disappeared in fast flowing flash flood. Following the strong flood current, the two persons were fast flash down from the drainage drains toward Sarawak River several kilometers away.
2 days later, Herman’s body was found 3 km away in Sungei Maong Ulu.Kho, the school girl, remain missing.
HERMAN’S BODY FOUND
7th January 2012 Saturday 8:35AM. Herman’s body was found 3km from where he went missing.
A search-and-rescue team from the Fire and Rescue department found Herman Sihas ( Mohd Sulaiman Abdullah) floating in Sungei Maong Ulu at 8.45am on 7th January 2012.
The location is 3km from where he was swept of together with the drowning student, Kho Ying Qi, 19, whom he tried to rescue.
The body was spotted floating beneath a bridge at Lorong Sungai Maong Ulu. Sungei Maong is a tributary of Sarawak River
Civil Defense Department personnel sent for a post mortem at the mortuary where his family members were waiting after hearing the news.
Herman, originally from Kampung Jangkar, near Biawak in Lundu, 100km from Kuching City. He was converted into a Muslim as Mohd Sulaiman Abdullah when he was 15 as a Form Three student in Kuala Lumpur.
Herman was buried in the afternoon at a private Semariang Muslim Cemetery at 2 PM with the help of neighbours of Taman Semariang Aman, where he had been staying with his sister and her family.
The State Islamic Council paid for the funeral.
Herman’s body found 3km from where he went missing : http://www.theborneopost.com/2012/01/08/hermans-body-found-3km-from-where-he-went-missing/
8th January 2012 I came with my brother to the spot of the tragic incident at Jalan Batu Lintang. We had just earlier visited Leong family, a relative living just 5 minutes walk near by.
We saw concerned members of the public has placed bouquets of flowers
Families, relatives, friends and well-wishers continue to place flowers at the spot alone the footpath in Jalan Batu Lintang.
It is now four days after the incident of flash flood that struck the city. While the body of petrol station worker Herman Sihas (Mohd Sulaiman Abdullah) was found 4km away at Sungai Maong early Saturday, the body of Kho Ying Qi has not been found.
The well-wishers who placed flowers also offered prayers. Religious groups offering prayers for both victims. Buddhist monks prayed there as well as some Christian groups.
The public was touch by Herman’s selfless act of jumping into the drain to help even though he could not swim.
Further down is Shell Station where Herman worked. Monetary donations continue to be passed on to his family by people who were touched by his action. Donations in envelopes were dropped off at the petrol station in Rock Road where Herman worked. His family would later collect them.
The body of Kho Ying Qi was found on 20 Jan 2012 at river near Sejingkat Kuching after 16 days some 30km from The Rock.
Padai age 30, a snail collector, by chance notice a body floating near Sejingkat power station (SPC) at Kampung Goeblit close to the mouth of Sarawak River.
While Padai went out to the river around 8am with five friends to look for Tekoyong, a type of edible river snails, he saw something floating near the river that looked like a human body with texture of the skin turned yellow.
When he got near he saw a body had decomposed with school uniform of black skirt, and black stocking but no shoes.
Padai alerted a police team which soon arrived at the scene.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/1/22/sarawak/10311408&sec=sarawak
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