Losing a parent as a child is probably the most painful thing a child has to go through but imagine, how painful it can be to lose both parents at the same time. That is the situation that 6 children in Indonesia suffered.

The heartbreaking incident happened in a family in the city of Kota Balikpapan, Kalimantan Timur province, Indonesia. Siti, who has five children, is still quite young and recently gave birth to a youngest daughter. However, when she was born about a month ago, on February 25, Ms. Siti suddenly fell ill due to hypertension. Despite being rushed to the emergency hospital, Ms. Siti was eventually unable to survive. That day, the family took Ms. Siti’s body home for burial.

But that’s not all the tragedy that six of Siti’s children have suffered. At Siti’s funeral, her husband also suffered a stroke and di‌ed of hypertension. Everything happened so quickly that people could not help. Ms. Siti’s husband di‌ed on the way to the hospital. 6 children of this couple became orphaned both parents in just one day.

Ms. Siti’s elderly mother recounted that the problem started when they took Ms. Siti to check the weight at the medical center and noticed something unusual, unexpectedly Ms. Siti passed away so quickly. But the climax of the sho‌ck was when Siti’s husband passed away at his wife’s funeral. Everyone is in agony when this sadness doubled to become infinite.

Painful for the couple, the surrounding people pity 6 children because they are too young, the youngest child is only one month old. Losing both parents is probably the most unfortunate thing they have to go through and from now on, they will no longer be able to receive the love, care and attention of their parents.

Siti’s parents cried when they thought of them.

Currently, these 6 children are being cared for by their grandparents. After learning about the news, many people living in the area came to offer condolences, helping two grandparents, and encouraging six children to quickly overcome this loss.

Indonesian netizens are currently sharing this story a lot because they are extremely compassionate and sympathetic to the plight of 6 children. A charity was created to help Siti’s parents to raise 6 orphans.