Zara Qairina inquest: School's teachers afraid to go out in public, court told


KOTA KINABALU: The Coroner's Court here has been told that teachers from SMKA Tun Datu Mustapha were under immense stress and afraid to go out in public following intense social media "attacks" by netizens over the death of Zara Qairina Mahathir.

Asni Marjan, 56, a former student affairs senior assistant at the school, said the barrage of criticism and online hostility had led several teachers to delete their Facebook accounts, while some became fearful of going to shopping malls, shops or even the market.

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