Aidana’s body claimed after DNA test proves positive

ib-instaforex · Post time 10-4-2015 12:33 PM

KUALA LUMPUR: The remains of helicopter crash victim and Kyrgyzstan national Aidana Baizeva has been claimed from the Kuala Lumpur Hospital by her family and a representative from the Kyrgyzstan Embassy yesterday.

Selangor police chief Abdul Samah Mat said the remains were claimed by her stepsister, Luisa Baizeva, together with a representative of the embassy at 5.30pm.

A local funeral company made arrangements for her remains to be transported to the KL International Airport (KLIA) and the remains were expected to be flown aboard an Air Astana flight to her hometown at 10.55am today, he said.

He said he was satisfied with the results of the DNA testing of the victim, and now the issue over the bodies of all six victims of the AS365N2 Dauphin (9M-1GB) helicopter that crashed in a rubber plantation area in Kampung Sungai Pening, Semenyih, on Saturday evening has seen closure.

He said the police, together with the Department of Civil Aviation (DCA), were investigating the cause of the crash.

Besides Aidana, those who died in the crash were Rompin MP and chairman of PR1MA Corporation Malaysia (PR1MA) Jamaluddin Jarjis; principal private secretary to the Prime Minister Azlin Alias; businessman Tan Huat Seang; Jamaluddin’s bodyguard Corporal Razakan Seran and helicopter pilot Captain Clifford Fournier.

All of them were on their way home from Pekan, Pahang, to Kuala Lumpur after attending the wedding reception of the daughter of Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and Rosmah Mansor, Nooryana Najwa and Daniyar Kessibayev.

– BERNAMA