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SUNGAI BULOH: Noorakhirludin Alam Mohamad Nor, a victim of the horrific multi-
vehicle accident at Km445.9 North South Expressway, near Rawang on Saturday, was
supposed to witness his daughter’s choir performance on Sunday.

Ezzra, 15, the second child of Noorakhirludin Alam, said her parents were supposed to
reach Kuala Lumpur today to witness her choir performance tomorrow.

“When I was on the phone with him yesterday, he told me to wait for him. I was part
of a choir performing before Tengku Permaisuri Selangor Tengku Permaisuri Norashikin
on Sunday.

“I manage to speak to my parents when they passed Simpang Pulai. They told me
that they will arrive in two hours. That was the last time I talked to my father,” she said
when met at the Sungai Buloh Hospital mortuary today.

The Sekolah Seri Puteri Form Three student said her mother, Maskiah Mat Saad, 41,
sustained bruises in the incident and her youngest brother, Ezzudin, 11, was currently
being treated at the intensive care unit (ICU) .

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DHAKA: Five teenage footballers drowned in a river in southeast Bangladesh moments

after they played a friendly match between supporters of Argentina and Brazil, police
said Sunday.

Police recovered the bodies from the Matamuhuri river at Chokoria town Saturday
night, some six hours after the boys drowned as they went to bathe in the coastal river
following the match.

Local police chief Bakhtiaruddin Chowdhury told AFP that 22 boys from a school
played the friendly after dividing themselves between supporters of Brazil and
Argentina.

Six of them went swimming afterwards clad in jerseys from the South American rivals.

“The river at that place was very deep. We rescued a boy. Later five bodies were
recovered. The dead included two brothers,” Chowdhury said.

Tens of thousands joined their funeral on Sunday, he said.

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FIFA WORLD CUP 2018. RUSSIA

MOSCOW: Goals from Paul Pogba and Kylian Mbappe, as well as a controversial VAR-
awarded penalty, helped France beat Croatia 4-2 in an incredible World Cup final in
Moscow on Sunday to lift the trophy for the second time in their history.

In a match that had a bit of everything, Mario Mandzukic scored the first ever own
goal in a World Cup final to put France in front at the Luzhniki Stadium, only for Ivan
Perisic to equalise.

However, Antoine Griezmann's penalty put France back in front after Perisic's handball
was penalised with the aid of the video assistant referee, before Pogba and Mbappe
both scored in the second half.

The first team to score four times in a final since Brazil in 1970, the French could even
afford to see Mandzukic pull a goal back following a ridiculous goalkeeping mistake
by Hugo Lloris.

France join Uruguay and Argentina in winning the World Cup for a second time, after
their 1998 triumph over Brazil when Didier Deschamps -- now the coach -- was the
captain.

The game will be remembered as the highest-scoring World Cup final since England's
win over West Germany in 1966, and for Mbappe becoming the youngest player to
score in the final since Pele in 1958.