NSE fatal crash: The call no parent wants to receive

IPOH: Iqbal Hasnun Halimi, one of five top students in a university who was killed in a midnight accident at the KM245 mark of the North-South Expressway (northbound), had planned to stay put in Kuala Kangsar after graduating. He never made it back to the university town located about 45km from here.His father, Halimi Ali Yahad, 50, from Senai, Johor, said his eldest son had mentioned his decision to a relative a few days before he was to return to Kuala Kangsar to continue his studies.

“He told his uncle it would be his last trip back to Kuala Kangsar as he wanted to stay on there,” Halimi, an ustaz, told reporters when met at the Kuala Kangsar Hospital forensics unit yesterday.