‘Rest in peace, beautiful souls’: Teacher bids farewell to Lundu boat tragedy victims

KUCHING (Aug 22): Words could not describe the grief that had stricken a teacher from SMK Senibong over the passing of her three students during a capsized boat tragedy in Batang Kayan, Kampung Selampit in Lundu on Tuesday.

Teacher Shasha Denzlin in a Facebook post recalled that the class rep had asked her on how to deal with Vilkie Wilson’s name in the attendance list.

Vilkie, alongside Heleana Fasha Petrus, 17, and Alasma Jitwil, 14 were the three victims that perished during the incident.

“The class rep asked: ‘Teacher, should we put Vilkie’s name as ‘absent’ or how?’

“The whole class burst in tears,” she said.

Shasha said as a former teacher to Helena last year, she said she was deeply affected by her passing.

She deemed that the late Heleana was a playful and very hardworking student as she always did her homework.

“Then, the intelligent and happy go lucky Alasma, a Draco athlete and my choral speaking (student). She’s always the chatter.

“When I sent her home, she said that she wanted to further her studies just like her brother and sister; she wanted to enter a Science school… maybe during Form 4.

“Words couldn’t describe anything. Rest well, angels,” she said.