The only surviving member of an Indonesian pop group swept out to sea by the tsunami buried his actress wife Tuesday, a day after the funerals of his three bandmates.
Riefian Fajarsyah, lead singer of the group Seventeen, posted a heartbreaking Instagram video of himself stroking the coffin of 26-year-old wife Dylan Sahara (right, with Fajarsyah) in a hearse.
“How can I live without you,?” Fajarsyah, 35, wrote to his followers.
Eerie video footage taken the night of the tsunami shows fans clapping and cheering during a beachside performance of the band in Java seconds before a wave smashed the stage.
The frontman’s wife, an Indonesian actress and TV personality, was one of dozens of people at the concert swept away by the wave.
Her body was identified at a hospital late Monday.
The group’s drummer, Wisnu Andi Darmawan, also died in the horror, as did bassist Muhammad Awal Purbani, guitarist Herman Sikumbang, manager Oki Wijaya and crew member Rukmana Rustam.
An emotional Fajarsyah asked friends and fans to send him photos they have of him and his wife — as both their cell phones were lost in the disaster. The couple wed in 2016.
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