She was hoping to surprise her son on his 14th birthday, travelling for more than four hours by coach from Singapore to Selangor to see him.
Instead, Miss Noridayu Zainuddin, 40, was in for a surprise, finding her son Imann with a swollen face and running a high fever.
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