Injured teenage woman says she searched frantically for her hubby
KUCHING: There is no fathoming a young wife’s love for her husband. When CityOne Megamall exploded, the first thing that came to Aimy Mohamad’s mind was the fate of her husband.
“Before the incident, I could see my husband in the restaurant kitchen but after the blast, he was completed buried under debris,” said a witness of the Tuesday gas blast incident at CityOne Megamall here.
According to Aimy Mohamad, 19, who is the wife of the restaurant worker, the explosion was extremely loud.
The blast at the premises in Jalan Song here took the lives of three men and injured 41 others.
Aimy, who works at a shop nearby, said she was struck by wooden splinters but mustered her courage to search for her husband Uzair Abu Bakar, 19, in the restaurant.
“The explosion occurred in a split second. I heard a loud bang before the ceiling of the restaurant collapsed and my husband disappeared in the thick smoke screen and a cloud of dust.
“I ran into the restaurant to save my husband but could not find him. I then went to the front of the restaurant and still could not locate him. That’s when I decided to search for him again in the restaurant for the second time,” she said when met at Sarawak General Hospital (HUS) here yesterday.
Aimy said her husband who had just started work two days ago as a kitchen helper was finally found by rescuers searching for victims.
“My husband had burns from the head to waist as he was nearest to the gas tank and has been warded in HUS Intensive Care Unit.
(Read more on our Newspaper 6 Dec 2018)
