STORY TO BE TOLD

Missing twins and friend found

GEORGE TOWN: Twin sisters Nurulain Kamarazmi and Nurulashiqin, 14, and their friend Suhaily Abd Razak, also 14, who were reported missing on Sept 11, were found here Tuesday morning, police said.

The three students of SMK Sentosa, Taman Bandar Baru, Kampar, Perak were found at a flat in Paya Terubong, here, at 8am, Air Itam police station-in-charge Chief Insp Mohd Fadzil Napiah said.

They were found along with two male friends aged 19 and 20, he added.

The three did not return home after going out for shopping on the second day of Aidilfitri. - Bernama

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Tuesday September 21, 2010

Baby dies at daycare centre
By CHITRA S. NATHAN
newsdesk@thestar.com.my

SEREMBAN: Barely a fortnight after celebrating Hari Raya with their only child, a couple here was horrified to find out their baby had died just a few hours after dropping her off at a daycare centre.

Three-month-old Nor Azwa Safrina Hairul Anuar was pronounced dead at the Tuanku Ja’afar Hospital after she was found unconscious by the daycare centre operator in Taman Paroi Jaya yesterday.

It is learnt that the baby’s teacher parents – Norhida Md Noor, 26 and Hairul Anuar Abdul Aziz, 30 – sent their daughter to the daycare centre at 7am on their way to work.

Hairul’s mother Zadariah Ismail, 57, said she was shocked to receive a phone call from one of the employees at the daycare centre at 11.30am informing her that her granddaughter was unconscious.

“The employee said she had gone to pick up Nor Azwa from the cradle for her bath and found something amiss as the child did not respond.

“She immediately called us.

“When we got there, I was horrified to find my grandchild’s body had already turned cold,” she said tearfully.

Zadariah and her husband then took Nor Azwa to a nearby clinic where doctors tried to resuscitate her before rushing her to the TJH but their efforts were in vain.

Zadariah said her son and daughter-in-law were too distraught to speak to reporters.

“We are shocked over what had happened.

“My son and his wife had brought Nor Azwa to our house just last night.

“I had no idea it was going to be the last time I saw her alive,” she said, adding that the cause of the child’s death was still unknown and the family were awaiting results of the post-mortem.

Deputy OCPD Supt Mohd Yusoff Awang said investigations were underway.

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Sea ordeal after fatal collision
By ANN TAN
anntan@thestar.com.my

GEORGE TOWN: A contract worker survived the harrowing ordeal of being tossed out of a car like a rag doll and thrown 70m into the sea in a deadly accident on the Penang bridge.

The accident at 11.30pm on Sunday killed two of his friends and injured another two.

For two hours, Lee Chun Hao struggled to stay afloat until he managed to find safety under the bridge.

All the while, he did not know the fate of his two friends who died after their vehicle crashed into the guard rail.

An oncoming lorry laden with vegetables slammed into the vehicle as it spun in the middle of the bridge at the 2nd kilometre stretch.

Lee, 17, said he did not know how he was thrown out of the car and into the sea, “but by the time I hit the water, I was struggling to stay afloat and gasping for air.

“I told myself, I must survive. The determination kept me strong,” he said.

Lee had to swim against the strong current that passed between the giant concrete beams holding the bridge. He grabbed and held tightly onto the overgrown barnacles on one of the beams.

At 1.30am, a rescue boat picked him up.

Lee was warded at the Penang hospital for cuts on his head, face and hands.

“I am glad I am alive but at the same time I am sad that I lost two friends.”

In the accident, accessories salesman Teh Boh Yi, 19, and wife shop assistant Khor Lee Mui, 17, were killed.

They were married eight months ago and have a two-month-old baby girl.

Two others — Chiam Chee Wei, 17, and Teh Bee Bee, 20 — suffered serious injuries.

Chiam was warded at the hospital’s intensive care unit with head injuries while Bee Bee sustained a broken right leg.

Penang Traffic Operations chief Deputy Supt Abdul Rahim Md Din said Boh Yi was believed to be driving Chiam’s Nissan Livina from Butterworth to the island when he tried to switch lanes.

That was when he was believed to have lost control of the vehicle. The car hit the guard rails and spun, before colliding with an oncoming lorry.

Khor’s mother H’ng Cheng Gim, 42, was inconsolable at the mortuary yesterday.

Her family said that the couple had planned to stay over at their house in Tanah Liat in Bukit Mertajam when their friends called asking them out for a party at the Upper Penang Road.

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