KUANTAN, Aug 10 (Bernama) -- No words could describe the pain and sorrow of a mother who lost her two sons in the blink of an eye in a drowning incident at the estuary of Sungai Balok, here this evening.
According to Wan Norhuda Wan Chik, 41, she had a bad feeling about her two sons after a neighbour asked her to go to the beach, not far from her home.
“Upon arriving at the beach, I saw the body of Muhammad Amirul Mukminin Abu Hanifah, 11 but the body of my youngest son (Muhammad Hafizul Iman, 10 years old) had not yet been recovered," she said when met by reporters at the Tengku Ampuan Afzan Hospital Forensic Unit here tonight.
In the incident at about 5pm yesterday, the two pupils of Sekolah Kebangsaan Balok had drowned after bathing with two of their friends.
However, their friends Ahmad Adam Naufal Ahmad Yamizi, 11, and Mohamad Lokman Hakim Suhamizan, 10, were saved.
Meanwhile, Kuantan District Education officer Mohd Razali Mustafar would look into the insurance claims of both the victims
Foreign Minister Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah, who is also Indera Mahkota MP expressed sympathy saying that he would assist the families of the victims.
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