Playing guardian angels for a year


Going the extra mile: Muthusamy and his wife K. Kamala Devi.

JOHOR BARU: A couple has demonstrated exceptional neighbourly love by taking care of their neighbours’ children for more than a year while their parents were stranded in Singapore.

Retired prison officer R. Muthusamy said his neighbours, who work in the food and beverage industry, left their children at home in Taman Puteri Wangsa here for work in Singapore before the government shut the border on March 18 last year due to the pandemic.

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