KUALA LUMPUR: About 70 witnesses are expected to testify at the inquest into the death of Zara Qairina Mahathir, which will begin on Sept 3.
The Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC), in a statement, said those expected to testify include the pathology expert who conducted the post-mortem on the 13-year-old student.
The inquest has been fixed for Sept 3 to 5; Sept 8 to 12; Sept 17 to 19; Sept 22 to 26; and Sept 29 to 30.
It will be presided over by Kota Kinabalu Sessions Court judge Amir Shah Amir Hassan, sitting as coroner.
Zara Qairina, a student at SMKA Tun Mustapha, was found unconscious at her school dormitory in Papar on July 16 and was pronounced dead the following day at Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
Her mother subsequently requested that her daughter’s body be exhumed for a post-mortem, citing suspicions over the events that preceded Zara Qairina’s death.
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