Victim saved injured stray cat before being killed in Taman Serdang bridge collapse

A distraught Zuhainum Salim (second, left), with family members at their home in Kampung Leret A, Sedang. Zuhainum's son Mohamad Haziq Ishak,17, was killed in a bridge collapse in Taman Serdang. - Bernama

BANDAR BAHARU (Bernama): Fate took a twist when a teenager who saved an injured stray cat was instead killed after being buried under piles of rubble in a bridge-collapse incident near Taman Serdang on Monday (Sept 10) night.

The mother of the victim, Zuhainun Salim, 54, said prior to the incident, her 17-year-old son Mohamad Haziq Ishak found the cat which was believed to have been hit by a passing vehicle at a junction near Pekan Serdang and brought it to her stall to treat it.

She said Mohamad Haziq had also told her that he wanted to bury the cat if the animal could not survive before he went out on his motorcyle with his friend, Muhammad Haikal Hakimi Mohd Noor, at 10pm.

"I was alerted by a younger sibling his friend that both my son and Muhammad Haikal were buried under the piles of rubble and I rushed to the scene," she said when met at her residence at Kampung Leret A near here on Tuesday (Sept 11).

In the 10.15pm incident, Mohamad Haziq and his pillion rider Muhammad Haikal, 17, were heading to Taman Serdang from Pekan Serdang when the bridge collapsed and they were buried in the rubble.

Their bodies were found at 12.15am and 12.30am Tuesday respectively. - Bernama