April 26, 2009 Sunday
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April 26, 2009
Double tragedy
Man's friend says the seven-year-old boy had quarrelled with a schoolmate
By Mavis Toh
Mr J.B. Bakar (in yellow) and Mr Hakim Sikkander, friends of the late Mr Mohamed Farook Ali Akbar, paying their respects at the Choa Chu Kang Muslim Cemetery yesterday. -- ST PHOTO: ASHLEIGH SIM
He left India nine years ago to make Singapore his home.

Now he is buried at the Choa Chu Kang Muslim Cemetery.

Mr Mohamed Farook Ali Akbar, 35, and his seven-year-old son Faheem Mohamed Farook fell to their deaths from the 24th floor of Block 287 in Bukit Batok East Avenue 3 on Friday afternoon.

According to witnesses, Faheem fell first.

Yesterday, the two bodies were claimed from the mortuary at about 1.30pm.

Mr Farook's wife, Anis, and 15 friends and family members then went to a mosque where the bodies were prepared for burial. Religious rites were also carried out.

The bodies were later buried, side by side, at the cemetery.

The Sunday Times understands that a distraught Madam Anis had to be warded at Alexandra Hospital after giving her police statement on Friday evening.

Family friend Muhd Umar Uddin, 40, who accompanied Madam Anis to the police station, said the 32-year-old broke down several times while there.

'She was weak and very unstable,' said the odd-job labourer whose wife and Madam Anis are good friends.

Read the full story in today's edition of The Sunday Times.

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