Three siblings found dead after leaving home on motorcycle
BY EMBUN MAJID
It was a mother’s worst nightmare. Siti Aishah Ariffin, 40, lost all her three children under tragic and puzzling circumstances. Just as she buried her eldest daughter, who was found dead in a padi field, she learnt that the other two were also dead in a canal 3km away. All three are believed to have been murdered.
ALOR SETAR: Siti Aishah Ariffin, 40, was frantic when her three daughters went missing. And then, things got worse and worse.
To her horror, her eldest daughter Norsyafika Nadia Rusdi, 14, was found dead.
She had just buried the girl yesterday when she learnt that her two other daughters were also dead, in tragic and mysterious circumstances.
Norsyafika Nadia
As she waited for the bodies at the Alor Setar mortuary, she was too devastated for words.
Siti Aishah and her husband Rusdi Rani, 38, who had moved here from Terengganu just a year ago were distraught when Norsyafika was found dead face down in a padi field in Kampung Alor Senibong in Langgar near here on Saturday.
The bodies of her sisters Nur Izzati Husna Rusdi, 12, and Puteri Nurul Akma Rusdi, three, were found in a canal more than 3km away. They are all believed to have been murdered.
Rusdi said his wife had not stopped crying since the girls went missing on Friday.
“My wife has not eaten anything since Friday. She can only cry her heart out.
“After Norsyafika’s body was found, she was inconsolable,” he said when met at the Sultanah Bahiyah Hospital mortuary.
Nur Izzati Husna
The three sisters had left their house in Kampung Alor Semela on a motorcycle ridden by Norsyafika at 7.30am on Friday to see Norsyafika’s employer.
Norsyafika had wanted to go to the employer’s house in Kampung Gelam, about 6km away, to collect her monthly salary as a bottle cleaner.
She had quit schooling last year to help her parents, who are school cleaners, to make ends meet.
When the girls failed to return home by midnight, the parents went to the house of a friend but were told that the three siblings had not gone there.
Puteri Nurul Akma
At 3.45pm on Saturday, villagers found Norsyafika’s body, clad only in a bra, in the padi field.
The two other sisters were nowhere to be found. A search was mounted and the two were found dead at about 4.50pm yesterday, their bodies floating in a Muda Agriculture Development Authority (Mada) canal in Kampung Padang Petani, 3.5km away from where their sister’s body was found.
Both sisters were found fully-clad, about 200m apart inside the canal by passers-by who notified the police. A dark-coloured pair of pants was found near one of the bodies.
The motorcycle they had used was found near a bus-stop, some 900m from their house and 2km from where Norsyafika’s body was found.
Rusdi, when met at the Sultanah Bahiyah Hospital mortuary after the first death, said the three sisters were very close since Norsyafika took care of the two younger ones while he and his wife were at work.
“Norsyafika, who recently stopped schooling to work as a bottle cleaner, always took her two sisters along when she went to meet her friends.
“The three were our only children,” he said in tears, adding that they only moved to the village last year after being in Terengganu for eight years.
Neither he nor his wife could speak to newsmen after the news broke that their two other daughters were dead, too.
Norsyafika was buried at the Alor Semela Muslim cemetery at about 5pm yesterday.
Meanwhile Cops seek teenage boy for questioning over deaths of three sisters
ALOR SETAR: Police are looking for a teenage boy to help shed light into the deaths of 14-year-old Norsyafika Nadia Rusdi and her two sisters.
Norsyafika's body was found in a padi field in Kampung Alor Senibong on Saturday after she went missing with her two sisters the previous day.
The bodies of her sisters, Nur Izzati Husna, 12, and Puteri Nurul Akma, three, were found on Sunday, in a river some 3.5km away in Langgar.
Kedah police chief Senior Deputy Comm Datuk Ahmad Ibrahim said police were now looking for the boy from Arau, Perlis, who is believed to be a friend of Norsyafika.
The three sisters had left their house in Kampung Alor Semela on a motorcycle ridden by Norsyafika at 7.30am on Friday to see her employer.
Norsyafika had wanted to go to the employer’s house in Kampung Gelam, about 6km away, to collect her monthly salary as a bottle cleaner.
ALOR SETAR: Kedah police chief Senior Deputy Comm Datuk Ahmad Ibrahim said the post-mortem on Norsyafika Nadia Rusdi, 14, showed that she had drowned.
He said there were no bruises or injuries on her body to indicate that she could have been abused physically.
SDC Ahmad said police were baffled over how she was only clad in her bra when the body was found, adding that a T-shirt believed to belong to her was found nearby.
He added that police also found a pair of dark pants near where the bodies of her two sisters Nur Izzati Husna Rusdi, 12, and Puteri Nurul Akma Rusdi, three, were found in a canal.
“Although Norsyafika was found to have drowned, we are investigating her death and the deaths of her sisters under Section 302 of the Penal Code.
“We will look into all possibilities in the case and interview her relatives, friends and those who last saw them,” he told reporters yesterday.
On the motorcycle ridden by Norsyafika on which her sisters were also seen riding pillion, he said it was found locked and in good condition at a bus stop near Sek Keb Gelam
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