The 18-year-old drowned while attempting to save a close friend, Salehuddin Ismail, 19, who got into difficulty at the waterfall in Hulu Besut. Ahmad and Salehuddin were among 15 people who went to the recreation park.
District police chief Superintendent Kamaruddin Mohd Zakaria said the group of teenagers were from Kampung Kulim Hilir, Pasir Putih in Kelantan and had travelled to the park on motorcyles.
About 11.30am, three of them went up the second cascade and jumped into the water. While taking a breather, Sallehuddin was said to have slipped on a rock, fell into the deep end of the pool and got into difficulties.
Seeing his friend in trouble, Ahmad dived in and managed to drag Salehuddin to the side before another friend pulled him out. As Salehuddin was being tended to, the friend suddenly realised that Ahmad was missing. Rescuers found Ahmad's body later in the day.
A grieving Zaharah Zakaria, 60, had yet to come to terms with her son's death. "He never told us about his waterfall trip. He had been unusually cheerful in the past three days," she said at Besut Hospital.
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