Authorities are searching for a 15-year-old boy with a learning disability who went missing after entering a forest near Kampung Permatang Pasir, Merlimau, Melaka, while looking for a lost cow.
00:00A 15-year-old boy with a learning disability has been reported missing after entering a forest
00:10near Kampung Permatang Pasir in Merlimau while searching for a lost cow. The Melaka Fire and
00:16Rescue Department said a search and rescue operation for the boy, identified as Muhammad
00:21Aidil Asiraf Fadli, began immediately after receiving a distress call at 11.54 p.m. on Wednesday.
00:30Initial efforts focused on the area around the cattle pen and were suspended at 1.35 a.m.
00:36before resuming at 7 a.m. on Thursday. Melaka Police Chief Datuk Zulkairi Mukhtar said there
00:42were no signs the boy's disappearance was due to an animal attack.
01:00The boy's mother, 38-year-old Siti Norehan Azhar, said her son, the second of six siblings, had not returned home after finishing his routine task of tending to his uncle's 13 cows.
01:23She became worried when he was still missing after 8 p.m., as he would normally return by 7 p.m.
01:30Her nephew went out to look for him, but returned empty-handed.
01:34Siti Norehan added that her son had been helping with the cows every evening for the past three years and had never gone missing before.
01:42She said the missing cow was eventually found near an abandoned pond in the forest around 10 p.m. on Wednesday, but there was still no sign of her son.
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