SHAH ALAM: “Two weeks ago, I dreamed that my husband passed away. He just laughed when I told him that.”
Those are words of Noor Nadia Kamaludim, 29, wife of Mohd Fatah Hashim, a Fire and Rescue Department diver, who was killed in a search and rescue operation at a mining pool in Taman Putra Perdana, Puchong, yesterday.
Noor Nadia, said she never imagined that her bad dream would “come true.”
“I dreamed about him passing away two weeks ago. He didn’t say anything then. I didn’t expect my dream to become a reality,” she told reporters after the funeral prayers at Section 15 fire station today.
The mother of two said she was informed about the tragedy at 10pm yesterday.
“He did not talk from morning till night a day before the tragedy happened.
“Next morning he went to work and came back home at noon for kuih.
“He acted strangely when he called for our kids and kissed them. I last saw him at 11am,” she said.
Mohd Fatah, 34, left behind a 3-year-old daughter and a one-year-old son. He will be buried in Beserah, Kuantan today.
Nadia said Fatah had served the Fire and Rescue Department’ water rescue unit for seven years.
In the incident, the divers; Mohd Fatah Hashim, 34, Izatul Akma Wan Ibrahim, 32, Mazlan Omarbaki, 25, Yahya Ali, 24, Adnan Othman, 33, and Muhammad Hifdzul Malik Shaari, 25, were killed while looking for a teenage boy who fell into the mining pond.
Mohd Fatah, Izatul Akma, Mazlan and Yahya were from Klang station while Adnan and Muhammad Hifdzu were from Shah Alam station.