KUALA LUMPUR: Tunku Khadijah, the eldest daughter of first prime minister Tunku Abdul Rahman, died of lung cancer at Pantai Hospital here yesterday. She was 89.
According to Tunku Khadijah’s daughter, Sharifah Menyalara Hussein, her mother died at 6.50pm.
“She died a few hours after being admitted to the hospital. My mother was diagnosed with late-stage lung cancer early this year,” she told Bernama.
Sharifah Menyalara said the remains of her mother would be brought to the Federal Territory Mosque to be bathed and shrouded before burial at the Bukit Kiara Muslim cemetery.
Tunku Khadijah leaves three daughters and seven grandchildren.