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MUM PROMISED A MOVIE TREAT, RECALLS VICTORIA
SEREMBAN: She told her children to skip school with a promise of a movie treat.
Instead, she took them to a railway track just 100m away from her house to end their lives.
Traumatised Victoria, the eight-year-old who survived the tragedy, said her mother M. Sanggita was sobbing incessantly while hugging her and her siblings one by one after she woke them up to prepare for school at about 6.15am.
"She told us that we could skip classes because she wanted to take us for a movie," she said and broke into tears.
"My three-year-old sister Esther was excited when she heard that we were going to watch a movie, and jumped out of bed immediately."
Her mother, according to Victoria, held their hand upon reaching the track and said, "we are all going to die today, forgive me".
"Esther was curious and asked my mother the meaning of 'die'. My mother said we were all going to see God.
"My sister asked my mother why she was still crying, as they could see the movie together with God," she said.
Victoria's grandmother P. Periakka, 59, said her granddaughter told her that Sanggita embraced her children firmly and waited for the express train to arrive.
"She held them tightly while standing on the track, but Victoria managed to break loose and jump in th nick of time while pulling her brother Jason with her," she said.
Periakka said Jason, 5, was seriously injured but was in stable condition.
He has been warded in HUKM in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur.
Date: 04.07.06
Venue: Taman Tuanku Ampuan Najihah, Seremban, Malaysia
Time: 9.30 AM
Killed: 1) M. Sanggita, 30
2) Sacheria, 6
3) Esther, 3
Injured: 1) Jason Kalidas, 5
Survived: Victoria, 8
Source: The Star, page N3, 05.07.2006
SEREMBAN: She told her children to skip school with a promise of a movie treat.
Instead, she took them to a railway track just 100m away from her house to end their lives.
Traumatised Victoria, the eight-year-old who survived the tragedy, said her mother M. Sanggita was sobbing incessantly while hugging her and her siblings one by one after she woke them up to prepare for school at about 6.15am.
"She told us that we could skip classes because she wanted to take us for a movie," she said and broke into tears.
"My three-year-old sister Esther was excited when she heard that we were going to watch a movie, and jumped out of bed immediately."
Her mother, according to Victoria, held their hand upon reaching the track and said, "we are all going to die today, forgive me".
"Esther was curious and asked my mother the meaning of 'die'. My mother said we were all going to see God.
"My sister asked my mother why she was still crying, as they could see the movie together with God," she said.
Victoria's grandmother P. Periakka, 59, said her granddaughter told her that Sanggita embraced her children firmly and waited for the express train to arrive.
"She held them tightly while standing on the track, but Victoria managed to break loose and jump in th nick of time while pulling her brother Jason with her," she said.
Periakka said Jason, 5, was seriously injured but was in stable condition.
He has been warded in HUKM in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur.
Date: 04.07.06
Venue: Taman Tuanku Ampuan Najihah, Seremban, Malaysia
Time: 9.30 AM
Killed: 1) M. Sanggita, 30
2) Sacheria, 6
3) Esther, 3
Injured: 1) Jason Kalidas, 5
Survived: Victoria, 8
Source: The Star, page N3, 05.07.2006
