Cancer patient pines for sons

Mum has not seen them in 10 years

AS she fights for her life, Rossanah Abdul Manan only thinks of her four sons.

She has not seen them in 10 years and now that she is in the final stages of liver cancer, the 44-year-old mother wishes for nothing more than to see her boys again, Harian Metro reported.

“Help us to get the boys here,” pleaded her elder sister Hashimah, who has been watching over her sibling since the doctors gave the bad news three weeks ago.

Rossanah has since been confined to her bed, depending on life support machines to go through each painful day.

Hashimah said her sister had quarrelled with her husband 10 years ago and he had sent Rossanah back to her parents’ house in Setapak.

He, however, kept the children – then aged three to 10 – away from their mother.

“At that time, we did not think there was anything amiss. But it later dawned on us that he was not coming to take her back,” Hashimah told the daily.

The sons are Asymawi Zulkifli, now 20, Muhammad Arif, 18, Muhammad Asyraf, 15, and Aminuddin, 13.

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Nur Ammar Adlyn, the youngest of three siblings, was playing alone with his bicycle at the back of the staff quarters of the Jabi district health office, near Besut, Terengganu, at about 5.50pm on Saturday.

His mother, Zurani Zakaria, 35, a nurse at the nearby health clinic, said she was at work at the time of the incident while her husband was chatting with the security guard.

“Suddenly a neighbour screamed that my son had fallen into a hole,” she sobbed when interviewed by the paper at her home in Kamoung Limbungan.

Her husband, Husni Mat Husin, 35, rushed to the spot and pulled the boy out before taking him to the health clinic but he was pronounced dead on arrival.