‘My son had never eaten that candy before’


KEPALA BATAS: Ten-year-old Mohamad Fahmi Hafiz Mohamad Fakhruddin, who passed away after choking on a gummy candy nearly the size of a ping-pong ball, had never eaten that type of candy before.

This was attested by the father of the deceased, Mohamad Fakhruddin Mohamad Fikri, 35, who said his eldest son might have consumed the candy with his friends at his Fardu Ain Basic Class (religious school) school in Sungai Dua.

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