Wednesday, June 22 2005,     » SUNGAI PETANI, June 20: It was hardly a fitting gift on Father’s Day ... a father losing his newborn. But that’s what happened to factory worker Mohamad Nordin Derais, 34, yesterday. Someone made off with his son from the infirmary of Sungai Petani Hospital, just hours after he was born. The baby’s mother, Noryati Abu Bakar, 31, had not even held her son when he was abducted. The hospital director, Dr Harif Fadzilla Che Hashim, declined to comment on the abduction, and the state health authorities have directed an investigation into how this could have happened in an area that is supposed to be a security zone, where only the immediate parents of babies are allowed in during visiting hours. The police are conducting their own investigations and have interviewed the staff of the infirmary and are tracing all

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