Flood: Seven year old boy first victim in Kelantan
KOTA BHARU: The floods in Kelantan claimed its first victim, a seven year old boy whose body was found in a flooded padi field in Felcra Teratak Batu in Pasir Puteh today.
Mohammad Ilham Hasmadi was reported to have followed his uncle to an irrigation canal at about 6.30pm yesterday to fish when he slipped from a plank bridge and fell into the swollen canal.
Kelantan police chief Datuk Hasanuddin Hassan said members of the search and rescue team found Ilham’s body at about 8am today, about 400 metres from where he was believed to have slipped into the canal.
The body was sent to Tengku Anis Hospital in Pasir Puteh for post mortem, he told reporters after attending a mass circumcision programme at the Kelantan police contingent headquarters here today.
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