KUALA LUMPUR: A memorial to honour the Batang Kali landslide victims will be held at SJKC Mun Choong on Friday.
An invitation for the "Memorial and Honouring Ceremony" has been distributed to guests. The memorial will be held from 9am to noon at SJKC Mun Choong's main assembly hall.
The school urged mourners not to come pay their respects with bouquet offerings. It also urged all those visiting to be dress modestly and appropriately.
People who are attending the event are advised to carpool as there are a limited number of parking spots at the school.
The landslide near Father's Organic Farm in Gohtong Jaya, Batang Kali at 2.42am on Dec 16 had claimed the lives of 31 people out of a list of 92 campers.
The Special Malaysia Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team (SMART) has described the Batang Kali landslide as Malaysia's second worst disaster in terms of fatalities, after the Highland Towers condominium collapse in 1993 which claimed 48 lives.
Previously, SJKC Mun Choong Parent-Teacher Association head U Chin Ong said the school will wait for the last victim, a 11-year-old pupil from the school to be found before conducting a memorial.
It was previously reported that the last victim, who was then still missing, was identified as Eng Shao Qi, a Year 5 student of SJK(C) Mun Choong.
The boy was the son of the canteen operator at the school. The landslide also took the lives of the boy's father, identified as Gary Eng, and his sister.
U had also told the New Straits Times that the boy's mother did not follow her family to the camping trip near Father's Organic Farm in Gohtong Jaya, Batang Kali.
He had said that the mother was going through an emotional roller-coaster as she had lost her husband, daughter and son in the tragedy.
The bodies of six teachers, three pupils, Eng and a school staff member had been found.
These 11 deaths were people who were directly related to the school.
The last body, which was that of Shao Qi, was recovered on the 9th day of search-and-rescue operations on Dec 24 at 4.53pm.
U said the total number of campers from the group was 25. It includes family members and friends of the campers directly related to the school.
U said six of the 25 people linked to the school had been rescued.
The camping trip was not an official school event, but it was a holiday trip planned by the teachers.