Cover image via The Star Online / United Sikhs' FacebookOrang Asli Development Department to fund survivors' education up to tertiary level
Along with free education for the two Orang Asli tragedy survivors, Miksudiar Alui, 11, and Norieen Yaakob, 10, the Orang Asli Development Department (JAKOA) have also informed that they will start **providing transportation for the Orang Asli students to return home every fortnightly from their schools**, as reported by Free Malaysia Today, yesterday.
The transportation will be provided for Orang Asli pupils in all 94 primary schools with hostels in the country, said Rural and Regional Development Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob.
The two survivors, Noreen Yakob, 10, and Mirsudiar Aluj, 11 were reportedly recovering well despite the horrifying incidents that span over 40 days when they were allegedly lost in the forest near Pos Tohoi
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11 OCT: Was there negligence in handling the Orang Asli tragedy? Teresa Kok wants to find out
9 OCT: Skeletal remains of another missing Orang Asli child found
The remains found at Sungai Perias were taken to the Gua Musang General Hospital for post-mortem.
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2 Orang Asli children found alive as authorities recover another body at Sungai Perias
Norieen Yakod's mother, Midah Angah, in a statement, earlier today, said that she had 'given up hope' of finding her missing children alive. Norieen's sibling, Haikal is yet to be found
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12:14 p.m: Skeletal remains of another child found in Sungai Perias
Meanwhile, the body found in the same Sungai Perias near Pos Tohoi on 7 October has been identified as Sasa Sobrie, one of the 7 Orang Asli pupils that went missing on 23 August
8-year-old Sasa Sobrie's highly decomposed body was found yesterday by Sungai Perias
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8 OCT: Families of missing Orang Asli children to provide DNA samples to aid body identification
Police have requested the families of the missing pupils to provide DNA samples for identification purposes this afternoon
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Highly decomposed body of a girl found near Pos Tohoi yesterday, 7 October
The body was found in Sungai Perias, just 500 meters from where the seven orang asli pupils went missing on 23 August.
The remains of the girl have been sent to the Gua Musang hospital for post-mortem
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7 SEPT: School authorities have apparently issued warning letters to parents and guardians of the 7 Orang Asli children who had gone missing in Gua Musang, Kelantan 2 weeks ago.
The letter, signed by the principal of Sekolah Kebangsaan Tohoi, warned that the students may be expelled for not attending classes since 23 August.
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Midah Angah, the mother of two of the missing kids, expressed her outrage with the school for sending them the letters when the kids went missing on school grounds and that "everyone knows the kids are missing"
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However, Deputy Education Minister P. Kamalanathan suggested that the letter may be fake and urged the parents of the missing children to forward their complaints about the alleged warning letter to the Education Ministry
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All 7 pupils – aged between 7 to 11 years old – have been reported missing in the jungle near the boarding school since 23 August. It is feared that they may have fled into the jungle to escape punishment after they were caught swimming in a river without permission.
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Search and rescue (SAR) operations were only mounted 3 days after a missing persons report was lodged and are still ongoing to locate the children. So far, only a torn stocking believed to have belonged to one of the kids and some footprints have been found.
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Amidst criticism of the local authorities' search efforts, family members of the missing children also claimed that the authorities conducted a check in their homes in the night, as they suspect that the parents could be concealing the kids in their homes
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