The teenager who managed to save her brother’s life with a viral video dies

  • Meryl Sebastian
  • BBC News, Kochi

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image source, Afra Rafeeq/YouTube

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Afra Rafeeq and her brother Muhammed were diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy.

He was quite a social media star in India.

just last year, Afra Rafeeq16, posted a video that helped raise crores of rupees for the treatment of his little brother, who suffered from spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).

It is a rare genetic condition, which causes muscle weakness and affects movement and breathing. It’s the same Afra Rafeeq suffered from it.

He died last Monday in a hospital in the southern state of Kerala, following developing complications related to the disease.

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