Autistic boy drowned in Skudai believed to have fallen in river accidentally, say cops


KULAI: The five-year-old autistic boy who drowned in the Skudai River here is believed to have fallen in by accident, say police.

Kulai OCPD Supt Tan Seng Lee said the boy’s mother noticed that he was missing from the compound of their house in Kampung Sepakat Baru near Senai at 3.30pm on Wednesday (May 1).

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