Three of the dead orang asli children were swept away by river


Norieen being brought to the Hospital on Friday. FILE PIC

KOTA BARU: Three of the orang asli children who went missing for almost six weeks were swept away by the river, says the mother of one of the two survivors. 

Norieen Yaakob, 10, who was found alive on Friday told her mother Midah Angah that her brother and two others were swept away by the Sungai Perias river.       

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