5-YEAR-OLD PARANG ATTACK VICTIM WAS EAGER TO FAST
Aunt can’t accept boy and his siblings are dead
“IWON’T eat tomorrow as I will be fasting.” Those were among the last words of Mohammad Faqhqih Zahirulhaq Mohd Fadzil, 5, one of the three siblings who died in an attack by a man who ran amok in Kampung Sungai Haji Muhamad, near Rungkup, Bagan Datuk, on Thursday.
The victim’s aunt, Sabiha Abu Bakar, 43, said her nephew, fondly called Haq, looked forward to fasting this year.
“I can still see his face and antics. I can’t accept that the siblings are gone.
“Haq was excited to start fasting. His father had prepared to break fast with him and the rest of the family,” she said at Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital’s Forensics Department yesterday.
Sabiha, a teacher at SK Seri Ampang here, said the siblings’ eldest sister, Nur Zuryn Faziera, 9, was unaware that they had died.
“Before Zuraidah (victims’ mother) was sent to Kuala Lumpur Hospital for further treatment, she told Zuryn that her siblings were gone.
“But Zuryn thought it meant that they did not go to school.
“We didn’t have the heart to break the news to her for fear that she would be traumatised.”
It was reported that a parangwielding man, believed to be mentally unstable, killed three siblings and wounded their mother and three other people.
Besides Faqhqih, the other deceased were Nur Ziah Fasihah, 2, and Muhammad Firash Zaffril, 3.
The victims’ mother, Zuraidah Md Ali, 35, and Zuryn were injured in the incident.
Half an hour later, the man ran to SK Sungai Haji Mohamad and slashed religious teacher Redhuan Embi, 32, and two pupils.