JOHOR BARU: A family's plans to celebrate a 7-year-old boy's birthday next week were shattered when he died after falling from the 10th floor of their home at the Sungai Melana Phase 2 People's Housing Project (PPR) in Tampoi here.
His mother, Norhidayah Yacob, 30, said the family had planned to celebrate Mohammad Adib Rizqy Mohammad Fauzi's birthday yesterday but had to postpone it because her husband, Mohammad Fauzi Zurin, 31, who works as a lorry attendant, had yet to receive his salary.
"We had planned to celebrate my son's birthday next Tuesday, as it is also my husband's birthday.
"However, we accept what has been decreed by Allah. My son also passed away on this blessed Friday," she said when met at the scene.
