Three siblings dead: 'I told them they didn't need to go to school, but they really wanted to go to school' - Mother
Three siblings died in a motorcycle‑lorry collision on Jalan Parit Haji Sirat in Pontian at about 7 a.m. on Thursday after insisting on going to school despite haze‑related closures, their mother Julaiha Munaji said.
Source: Astro Awani · October 8, 2026 at 10:32 AM · AI-assisted report
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JALAN PARIT HAJI SIRAT, PONTIAN, JOHOR, 8 OCTOBER 2026 —
Three siblings died in a motorcycle‑lorry collision on Jalan Parit Haji Sirat in Pontian at about 7 a.m. on Thursday after insisting on going to school despite haze‑related closures, their mother Julaiha Munaji said.
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The tragedy shows how school shutdowns caused by the Johor haze can lead children to defy official warnings and travel to class, exposing them to road risks, according to the mother’s account.
Julaiha Munaji, 43, said she had told her children Nor Daniel Fikri Norlizan, 11, and Puteri Naufal Raisya, 8, not to attend school because all schools in Johor were closed due to the haze. Nevertheless, the two insisted on going, and their elder brother Nor Daniel Aiman, 18, took them on a motorcycle to prove the school was shut.
“Bila sampai depan sekolah, saya dimaklumkan kamera litar tertutup (CCTV) sekolah rakam motosikal dinaiki mereka dan terus pusing nak balik ke rumah,” she said. She added that the school is about two kilometres from home and that a passer‑by on his way to work informed her that the motorcycle carrying her children had crashed near the house, a distance of only 200 metres.
Her husband and the eldest child proceeded to the crash site, and the children were later taken to Pontian Hospital. Julaiha said she observed no unusual change in the children before they left home and that they remained cheerful as usual.
She quoted Nor Daniel Fikri as saying he wanted to play ball, had washed his shoes clean and left them ready for later use, and noted that Puteri Naufal Raisya had done school work the previous night and continued it in the morning.
The mother described the three siblings as very close, saying they had slept together the night before the accident. She characterised Nor Daniel Aiman as quiet but fond of joking with her, and added that all three were tightly bonded. Reflecting on a previous incident, she said, “Four months ago I had an accident after dropping my child off at school. Aiman, who is also my third child, helped me a lot by dropping my younger siblings off at school.”
Julaiha Munaji, mother of six children, told reporters there had been no peculiar change seen in her children and they remained cheerful like before leaving home.
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