KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 1 -- The grave of a 13-year-old Sabah schoolgirl is set to be exhumed for a post-mortem, two weeks after she died following a fall from a third-floor school hostel - a move initiated by her mother, who says she was never advised to request an autopsy at the time of burial.

Zara Qairina Mahathir, a Form One student at Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Agama (SMKA) Tun Datu Mustapha in Papar, Sabah, died on July 17 after being found critically injured beneath her boarding school dormitory in the early hours of the previous day. She was buried that night without a post-mortem.

Now, her mother, Noraidah Lamat, 45, says she has instructed two lawyers to initiate legal steps to exhume her daughter's grave so that an autopsy can b...