According to his mother Shabariah Yusof, 49, her son often went out with his friends at 11pm after helping his brother sell pudding in Kampung Senibong.

“He would only go out cycling with friends after helping his brother. I don’t know where they went but he usually came back after 3am.

“I found out about the accident when his friends came back and told me about it,” she said in a choked voice when met by reporters in front of the Sultanah Aminah Hospital (HSA) Forensic Department here today.

Azhar, 16, was the eighth of 10 siblings. He attended SMK  Permas Jaya 3.

Meanwhile, his elder brother, Khainurizam Amir, 33, said he had often advised Azhar against cycling with the group.

“I had told him on numerous occasions not to get involved in the activity but children can be stubborn. He would leave the house on the quiet when friends beckoned,” he said.

In the 3am incident, eight male teenagers were killed while eight others were injured, two critically, when a car ploughed into them on Jalan Lingkaran Dalam, near the Mahmoodiah Cemetery, near here.