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Matt Watts

Last words of Muslim boy stabbed to death in US were ‘Mom, I’m fine’, family reveal, as funeral held in Chicago

The last words of a six-year-old Muslim boy stabbed to death in a suspected hate crime in the US revealed were “Mom, I’m fine”, his family revealed as he was laid to rest at his funeral.

Wadea Al-Fayoume, who had recently had a birthday, died on Saturday after being stabbed dozens of times in Plainfield, Illinois, in a brutal attack in which his mother was also seriously wounded.

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