The mother of tahfiz student Mohamad Thaqif Amin Mohd Gaddafi has rejected the autopsy finding that her son died of leptospirosis, a disease caused by exposure to rat urine.

"There is no need to manipulate things. I feel very hurt.

"The doctors could not tell us what bacteria had infected him from the day he was hospitalised, and now they tell us it's rat urine...