BUTTERWORTH: The death of a four-month-old boy at a 24-hour childcare centre in the Hospital Seberang Jaya compound last week has been confirmed as suffocation.
Penang police chief Comm Datuk Azizee Ismail said preliminary post-mortem findings established that the infant died from asphyxia caused by suffocation.
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"Investigations are ongoing, and several critical elements are being examined in detail before the case is submitted to the DPP," he said when met during the Ops Selamat 26 programme in conjunction with Hari Raya Aidilfitri 2026 at the Juru Toll Plaza on Wednesday (March 18).
He said that the investigation paper is currently being finalised, with several key aspects still under scrutiny before it is referred to prosecutors.
On March 10, two women employees of the centre were remanded for seven days to assist investigations.
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Police said an investigation paper for murder had been opened after the infant’s death.
Hayl Haarith Mohd Syafaeez was found unconscious at the centre in the early hours of March 9.
He was rushed to the hospital’s Emergency Department at about 4am after his mother Ummu Habibah Wahab, 30, a nurse on night duty, received a call informing her that her child’s face had turned bluish.
