2007 06: Cross-country: Missing boy was with grandpa

NST online. Local News. 28/6/07

By : Fadhal Ilahi Ab Ghani and R. Yasothai

KUALA LUMPUR, THU.:
A seven-year-old boy, reported missing for the past six days, was found safe at his grandfather’s house in Wangsa Melawati, near Hulu Klang, yesterday.

Muhammad Haiqal Shaqidin Mohd Nor Hisham of Taman Permata was reunited with his parents at the Ampang police station at 11am.

Police had picked up the boy from his grandfather’s house and brought him to the station before informing his worried parents, Mohd Nor Hisham Mat Zahari and Juli Kartini Kamarudin.

Ampang police chief ACP Amer Awal said a man approached him while he and his men were distributing flyers of the missing boy in Taman Melawati.

"He told me he knew the whereabouts of Haiqal. He then took us to Haiqal’s grandfather’s house where we found the boy."

A relieved Juli Kartini, 31, said a policeman called to inform her that her son had been found.

Apparently, Haiqal, who did not return home after a visit to a nearby cyber cafe on Friday, was sent to his grandfather’s house by an unidentified woman on Monday.

She said her father, Kamarudin Othman, had been unable to get in touch with her as she was busy searching for the boy.

She said she was glad that Haiqal was safe and sound.

Recalling the day her son went missing, she said she waited for six hours before lodging a missing person report.

The family started distributing flyers of the boy in the neighbourhood on Saturday.