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**Solo3uc4** · 11-08-2010, 06:51 PM

Monday November 8, 2010

Air Force brings home first batch of 130 students from Solo

By JOSHUA FOONG
joshuafoong@thestar.com.my

SUBANG JAYA: The first batch of 130 Malaysian university students affected by the Mount Merapi volcanic eruption arrived safely on-board a Royal Malaysian Air Force (RAMF) aircraft yesterday evening. The aircraft touched down after a nine-hour operation at 7.55pm. The students appeared calm and expressed relief for their safe evacuation from the disaster zone.

In pain: Shobana being transferred to an ambulance once she landed at the Royal Airforce base in Subang Sunday night.

“We were put up in a hotel by government officials and were given food while waiting to fly back,” first-year medical student at Universiti Gadjah Mada Lee Kai Xin, 18 said. “We appreciate the care and concern shown by the Government throughout our ordeal,” added Lee, who is from Ipoh. However, for Lee’s coursemate Nurul Izzati Ahmad, 19, from Alor Setar it was like coming from “one natural disaster to another”. “While I am very grateful to be back home, my hometown is flooded. But at least I am close to those who matter most to me,” she said.

While most of the 130 were in good health, a pharmacy student Shobana Pillai Murali had to be brought down on a stretcher as she suffered a slip disc injury before the series of volcanic eruptions happened. “She has been brought to the Sungai Buloh Hospital for a check up. It’s nothing serious,” Malaysian Students Department in Indonesia director Datuk Dr Junaidy Abu Bakar said. Later, two other planes touched down at 11pm and at midnight respectively, with more evacuees.

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Solo3uc4 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 460 Senior Member	Monday November 8, 2010 Air Force brings home first batch of 130 students from Solo By JOSHUA FOONG joshuafoong@thestar.com.my SUBANG JAYA: The first batch of 130 Malaysian university students affected by the Mount Merapi volcanic eruption arrived safely on-board a Royal Malaysian Air Force (RAMF) aircraft yesterday evening. The aircraft touched down after a nine-hour operation at 7.55pm. The students appeared calm and expressed relief for their safe evacuation from the disaster zone. In pain: Shobana being transferred to an ambulance once she landed at the Royal Airforce base in Subang Sunday night. “We were put up in a hotel by government officials and were given food while waiting to fly back,” first-year medical student at Universiti Gadjah Mada Lee Kai Xin, 18 said. “We appreciate the care and concern shown by the Government throughout our ordeal,” added Lee, who is from Ipoh. However, for Lee’s coursemate Nurul Izzati Ahmad, 19, from Alor Setar it was like coming from “one natural disaster to another”. “While I am very grateful to be back home, my hometown is flooded. But at least I am close to those who matter most to me,” she said. While most of the 130 were in good health, a pharmacy student Shobana Pillai Murali had to be brought down on a stretcher as she suffered a slip disc injury before the series of volcanic eruptions happened. “She has been brought to the Sungai Buloh Hospital for a check up. It’s nothing serious,” Malaysian Students Department in Indonesia director Datuk Dr Junaidy Abu Bakar said. Later, two other planes touched down at 11pm and at midnight respectively, with more evacuees.
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