PETALING JAYA: Datuk Sheikh Mustapha Abdul Shukor, the father of Malaysian astronaut Datuk Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, died of colon cancer at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Hospital. He was 77.
Sheikh Muszaphar said his father, who had been suffering from the illness for the past five years, was receiving treatment at HUKM since last month. He died at 9.26am.
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