Singapore- A 14-year-old boy on the road to recovering from cancer died after he was knocked down by a hit-and-run driver while crossing a Singapore street, news reports said Wednesday. Tan Kwang Zhen died in a hospital and was cremated Tuesday, only hours before an interview detailing his battle with the disease cancer was screened on television, The Straits Times reported.
The driver of the car, a 27-year-old man, was arrested after knocking down the secondary school student who was walking with his mother and 7-year-old brother on August 31.
Kwang Zen described his ordeal with the disease in the prerecorded programme.
Diagnosed with leukaemia when he was 12, Kwang Zhen said that he and his mother cried for a "whole day."
"To die at 12 was a bit early," he said. "There's a lot of things I had not done."
At one point, his weight dropped to 28 kilograms, but Kwang Zhen's condition improved after an 18-month struggle.
The cancer went into remission, and he was well enough to return two months ago to school.
Though he started school six months after his classmates, he had a "strong learning ability" and coped well, the newspaper quoted counsellor Soh Shiow Jiuan as saying. He "always carried a smile."
"You can't tell what's going to happen in life. Whatever comes, you have to try to grapple with it," were the youth's last words on the TV programme.
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