Girl, 10, killed on her way to school


  • Nation
  • Friday, 09 Jan 2004

KOTA KINABALU: A 10-year-old girl was found murdered and believed to have been raped when she took the fatal decision to walk to school, a kilometre away from her Kampung Tebobon house in Menggatal near here. 

The blood-drenched body of Year Four pupil Harirawati Saridi of SK Tebobon was found at 7.30am yesterday with a stab wound on her neck in a bush on a hill slope, several metres away from the road she took to school. 

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