KUALA LUMPUR: Toh Puan Raghad Kurdi Taib today took to social media to express her grief over the demise of her husband and former Yang di-Pertua Negeri Sarawak Tun Abdul Taib Mahmud.
Raghad, who has been in the spotlight over the situation surrounding Taib recently, wrote: "No words could describe how much he meant to me."
"May your soul be blessed and placed among the righteous in paradise. Al-Fatihah."
Taib, Sarawak's longest-serving chief minister, took his last breath at 4.40am at the Cardiac Vascular Sentral Kuala Lumpur hospital (CVSKL).
He was 87.
His body is expected to arrive at the Kuching International Airport at around 3pm today from Kuala Lumpur and from the airport brought directly to his residence in Demak Jaya at Jalan Bako.