GOPENG: A six-year-old boy with autism who was reported missing after venturing out of his home was found drowned in a mining pond near his home, this morning.
Kampar police chief Superintendent Hasron Nazri Hashim said the boy's body was found floating in the pond located about 80 metres from his home.
"There is no element of foul play in this case and the body will be taken to the Kampar Hospital for post-mortem," he said in a statement today.
His mother, Nur Shamimi Abdul Malek, 27 said her son, Muhammad Fayyadh Ukasyah Abdul Wahid, who was also deaf and mute, had never gone to the mining pond area.
"The gate was opened as his brother just returned home after playing with the neighbours' children. He had forgotten to close it.
"I was in the shower at the time and after I came out and saw the gate opened, I knew immediately Fayyadh would have gone out as he was kind of hyperactive too.
"I told my eldest son to look for Fayyadh. He usually went to the playground but he wasn't there," she said when met at her home at Taman Kinta Baru here, today.
The mother of five said she was upset as her son was close to her and always held her legs before sleeping.
"We gave him extra attention at home due to his condition. We didn't expect this to happen but I accept it as God's will," she said.