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How 8-year-old Yusri became a stateless orphan

"I shook my father but he didn't wake up. His hands were stiff and Dad's body was cold. I then turned off the fan and went out to tell my aunt next door," said Muhammad Yusri, relating how his father had died in the April 12 incident.

In the blink of an eye, the eight-year-old boy became an orphan.

This is because before his father died of a heart attack, his mother passed away about a year ago...

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