KUANTAN: A gloomy atmosphere enveloped the Batu 8 Muslim burial ground here as a huge crowd turned up to give Constable Muhamad Shafiq Ahmad Said a hero's sendoff.
The 24-year-old was killed in an attack at the Ulu Tiram police station in Johor yesterday.
His casket, draped in the Jalur Gemilang, was brought to the cemetery in a hearse from his house at Taman Seri Mahkota Jaya near here where the solat jenazah was performed earlier.
Eight pallbearers carried the casket from the hearse to the burial plot before it was lowered into the grave.
Shafiq's parents Ahmad Said Md Piah, 65, and Aini Mohd Sharif, 57, remained composed as they sat on a chair nearby and watched the burial.
Pahang police chief Datuk Seri Yahaya Othman and several officers from the Pahang police contingent were among those who paid their last respects.
Yahaya later handed over the Jalur Gemilang to Ahmad Said.
The burial ceremony was completed around 5.50pm.
Both Shafiq and his colleague Constable Ahmad Azza Fahmi Azhar were killed by a masked, parang-wielding intruder at the Ulu Tiram police station at 3am yesterday while another policeman was injured. The suspect was shot dead.
