Student Dies at School: Grandmother Finds Fiya Slumped and Covered in Blood in School Hall

BATU PAHAT: “She managed to look at her grandmother’s face while being cradled in my arms before she passed away.”

Those were the words of Jameyah Rabani, 66, as she recalled finding her granddaughter, Irene Sofiya Mohd Khairool Faisal, 16, covered in blood after she was believed to have been murdered at a secondary school in Yong Peng near here on Saturday afternoon.

Recounting the incident, Jameyah said two of her granddaughter’s friends came to her house at about 5.30pm to ask about Irene Sofiya’s whereabouts. The teenager was affectionately known as Fiya.

She said the two friends became concerned after noticing that Fiya’s motorcycle was still at the school, although they could not find her.

Jameyah then asked her eldest daughter, Siti Nur Faeza, 45, who had just arrived from Kluang, to accompany her to the school, about three kilometres from their home, to search for Fiya together with the two friends.

“We went around searching the school grounds and her friends also helped. Then one of them found Fiya inside the school hall.

“I then heard her friend shouting for me to come quickly because there was a lot of blood,” she said when met at Kampung Parit Selamat, Yong Peng, on Saturday night.

Jameyah said that when she arrived at the scene, her granddaughter was still responsive when her name was called, but she was weak and covered in blood.

“She managed to look at her grandmother’s face before she slumped and stopped moving,” she said.

Jameyah said she accepted her granddaughter’s passing, but was deeply saddened that the girl she had lovingly cared for had been treated so cruelly on school grounds.

She said she had cared for Fiya since she was nine years old after the teenager’s mother died of liver cancer.

Meanwhile, Fiya’s grandfather, Khyar Abas, 69, said he never expected that a conversation with his granddaughter over breakfast on the morning of the incident would be their last.

He said he had asked Fiya whether she wanted to accompany her grandmother to attend a wedding in the village, but she told him she had an online class at 11am.

Fiya was also scheduled to attend an additional class at school at 2pm.

“The three of us had been living together since Fiya was nine. She never caused any trouble for her grandparents and was very dedicated to her studies,” he said.

Sinar Harian