KUALA LUMPUR, April 15 — Former premier Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was laid to rest with full state funeral honours at the Heroes’ Mausoleum near Masjid Negara (National Mosque) at 2.30pm today.
Earlier, the funeral prayer for the nation’s fifth prime minister was held at the mosque, led by Grand Imam Ehsan Mohd Hosni.
Apart from Abdullah’s wife Tun Jeanne Abdullah, his son Tan Sri Kamaluddin, daughter Nori and son-in-law Khairy Jamaluddin, the state funeral was also attended by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and the Deputy Prime Ministers Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof.
Earlier, Abdullah’s remains were brought to Masjid Negara for the lying-in-state to enable members of the public to pay their last respects.
Tun Abdullah breathed his last at the National Heart Institute at 7.10pm yesterday at the age of 85.
Born on November 26, 1939, in Bayan Lepas, Penang, Tun Abdullah helmed the country’s premiership from October 31, 2003, until April 3, 2009, following the resignation of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
— Bernama
