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'Kajang not a city of corpses', protest angry residents

Brandishing placards which read ‘Don’t burn corpses in our backyards’ and ‘Kajang is a city of culture, not a city of corpses’, some 100 residents took their grouses to the Selangor secretariat building in Shah Alam today.

The residents were incensed over the construction of a columbarium near their homes in Kajang and submitted a memorandum to Selangor Menteri Besar Azmin Ali’s aide Suhaimi Shafie.

However, Kirubakaran Karthigasu, chairperson of the Sri Subramaniya Swami temple defended the the construction as the columbarium land had been gazetted for religious purposes since 1928.

The temple had formed a joint-venture with developers to build the columbarium as an extension to an existing crematorium on its land.

One resident committee chairperson Low Chee Cheong told Malaysiakini that they became aware of the project when leaflets regarding the construction were distributed in mid-March.

Low said the residents are upset for not being consulted.

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