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Madam Nur Azah Ismail with her four children (from left): Izz Amsyar, Iffah Irdina, Ilya Insyirah and Irfan Afiq, in Munnar, a town in India's Kerala state. The family lived in Chennai for about two years because of their father's work posting.

Madam Nur Azah Ismail with her four children (from left): Izz Amsyar, Iffah Irdina, Ilya Insyirah and Irfan Afiq, in Munnar, a town in India's Kerala state.

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Two years ago, Iffah Irdina Kamshari started her secondary school education at Riverside Secondary but unlike other 12-year-olds, she never sat the Primary School Leaving Examination.
She had been living in India with her family for two years before.
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