Two-year-old Girl Drowns in Drain Hidden By Floodwaters

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 are hidden from sight in the rising waters. When his granddaughter, Nur Aisha Misya Afifah Abdul Fattah, 2, was found dead by villagers as the floodwater was subsiding, Mohad Hamidan said that he went down into the water-filled drain himself to retrieve her lifeless body "Before the incident, she went out to play with her three-year-old brother. On their return home, she slipped out again unnoticed. "She must have fallen into the drain on the second outing ... the drain was indeed filled to the brim as the area was flooded and not visible, and there is no drain cover as well," he said at the Forensic Department of Sultanah Bahiyah Hospital here to day. He said as soon as he received a call from the little girl's mother Siti Nurfarhana Abdullah, 18, who raised the alarm that Nur Aisha was missing, he rushed home from work and began searching for the deceased all the way to Sungai Kedah. Source: BERNAMA News Agency