Autistic boy finds way home after MRT adventure


Ahmad Ziqri Morshidi (in blue t-shirt), who is autistic, with his younger brother Aidil Rahman (second from left) posing for a photograph with MRT staff and auxiliary policemen. Ahmad Ziqri went missing after he went into one of the trains on his own. He was found after a search by the officers.

PETALING JAYA: Datin Hasnah Abdul Rahman experienced a parent’s worst nightmare when her autistic son Ahmad Ziqri Morshidi went missing.

The ordeal began at 11am yesterday when Ahmad Ziqri asked his mother for a ride on the MRT, as he had seen a video of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak boarding the newly-opened rail system.

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