Little did she know then, but her 79-year-old mother, Fatimah Mohd, was later found burnt to death following a fire at her parent’s wooden house at Kampung Losong Haji Su here. "Mak (mother) managed to call me on the phone at 10.30am and screamed for help several times. I rushed to my parents’ house and that’s when I saw the fire brigade putting out the fire. The grieving Zailah said she last met her mother last Saturday and that she (her mother) would always contact her to buy basic items. "The victim, who was ill, could not save herself and is believed to have fallen to the ground when the wooden house collapsed during the fire, ” he said.

Source: The Star June 07, 2021 10:15 UTC