A photograph taken earlier in the holiday and published in Malaysian media shows Neoh, a cake seller from the state of Penang, and his family posing happily at a restaurant in Bangkok, their table laden with Thai dishes and glasses of beer.
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“They left for Bangkok last Saturday by train and was supposed to return this morning”, Lim Gim Seong said outside the family home. She says: “I’m depressed for those innocent people who had to pay for something they’re not involved with, and now they’ve got no chance to live their lives because of someone else’s agenda”.
Meanwhile, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Mah Siew Keong said the government would contribute RM10,000 to each family of the victims of Monday’s bomb blast in Bangkok. But four other family members, including Ee Ling’s four-year-old daughter, are confirmed dead and a fifth is presumed to have died.
“The person in red and the person in white are also suspects”, police spokesman Prawut Thawornsiri said, referring to two men seen in grainy CCTV footage along with a man in a yellow t-shirt who police believe is linked to the attack.
Mr Neoh’s 20-year-old son Neoh Jai Jun, a student at university in Taiwan, had returned home to join them on the holiday, The Star reported.
The bodies of Lim Siew Gaik, 49; son-in-law, Lee Tze Siang, 33; son Neoh Jai Jun, 20; and grand-daughter Lee Jing Xuan, four, were flown from Bangkok on a Thai Airways TG 425 aircraft and arrived at LTAPP at 11pm. An unidentified member of Mr Neoh’s family laid bundles of clothes at the shrine to represent their loved ones, a monk said.
The explosion on Monday took place at about 7pm (8pm Malaysian time) at the Ratchaprasong junction near the Erawan Shrine and shopping centres in Bangkok.
Hock Guan was quoted by the Malay Mail as saying he was about to pray at the shrine Monday evening when he dropped the candle he wanted to light. “The next thing I knew, none of my family members were in sight”. Right: Neoh Hock Guan holds up a picture of his son who was killed in the attack.
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He said it was Tze Siang’s wife, Neoh Yee Ling, 33, who telephoned him to inform him about the bomb blast in Bangkok.
