Officers are in Tumpat to meet child bride, says Wan Azizah


Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail. -filepic

SEPANG: Officers from the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry are in Tumpat, Kelantan, to meet a 15-year-old girl who had reportedly married a man 30 years her senior.  

Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, who also heads the ministry, said the officers were looking into the case, as the federal government was trying to raise the minimum marriage age to 18.  

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