TUMPAT: The elder sister of Norhazwani Ibrahim, 35, told her two young nieces this morning that their mother had died, but withheld details of her death after she was found murdered at government quarters in Jalan Kuarters KLIA, Nilai, Negri Sembilan, on Thursday.

Marliza Ibrahim, 48, said she told the children, aged five and six, that their mother had died of an illness rather than reveal the circumstances of her death.

"When they asked why, I simply told them she was sick," she said.

"I could not bring myself to tell them the actual incident, as they are too young to understand," she said when contacted today.