SLAIN BERNAMATV CAMERAMAN LAID TO REST

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 5 (Bernama) -- BernamaTV cameraman Noramfaizul Mohd Nor,
shot dead on Friday while covering a Malaysian humanitarian aid mission in
famine-hit Somalia, was buried Sunday at the Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
cemetery in Serdang near here.

The burial ceremony was attended by members of Noramfaizul's family, friends
and fellow journalists, including executives and staff of BernamaTV and the
Malaysian National News Agency (Bernama).

Information, Communications and Culture Minister Dr Rais Yatim,
former information minister Zainuddin Maidin, Seputeh MP Teresa Kok,
Seri Kembangan state assemblyman Ean Yong Hian Wah and Putera 1Malaysia Club
president Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim also attended the ceremony.

Among the Bernama executives present were chairman Abdul Rahman Sulaiman,
general manager Hasnul Hassan and editor-in-chief Yong Soo Heong.

Noramfaizul, 39, was killed on Friday after he was shot while travelling in
a four-wheel-drive vehicle with other Malaysian media personnel covering the
humanitarian aid mission to Somalia by the Putera 1Malaysia Club.


Noramfaizul's remains were flown in to the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF)
base in Subang at about 10 am in an RMAF C-130 aircraft which also brought back
the remaining 54 members of the aid mission.

The cameraman's parents, Mohd Nor Mat Yassin, 66, and Naemah Abd Majid, 63,
as well other family members were at the airbase to receive the body.

Also present were Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak and his wife Rosmah
Mansor, Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and his wife Norainee Abdul
Rahman and several cabinet ministers.

The coffin, draped in the Malaysian flag, was taken to the RMAF mosque for
prayers, and the lid was opened to enable the family members and others to have
a final look at Noramfaizul.

Naemah shed tears as she took a close look at her only son, the eldest of
six siblings, for the last time.

Also present were Noramfaizul's widow, Norazrina Jaafar, 37, and their two
sons, Mohd Irfan, eight, and Mohd Naufal, three.

Najib and Muhyiddin were among the dignitaries who attended the prayers for
Noramfaizul whom the prime minister described as a national hero.

Noramfaizul's remains were then taken to the family home in Taman Serdang
Raya and then to the nearby Al-Islah Mosque for prayers for the second time
before the burial.

-- BERNAMA