Heartbroken grandfather shares ordeal of retrieving granddaughter's body


ALOR SETAR: A grandfather was heartbroken when he discovered that his granddaughter drowned in a drain in Lorong Seri, off Jalan Langgar, near here last night.

Amidst the stormy season with floods currently swamping the northern states, Mohd Hamidan Hashim, 38, was scanning further on the horizon when the real danger for little children loomed closer to home as open drains were hidden from sight in the rising waters.

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