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Family wants probe into kins suicide in Singapore

The family of a 25-year-old Filipina who reportedly committed suicide in Singapore is asking local authorities to conduct an autopsy of the remains of their kin.

The body of Janeth Calamohoy was flown straight to Zamboanga City after it was sent to the Ninoy Aquino International Airport from Singapore on Sunday.

A death certificate issued by the Singaporean government merely indicated that multiple injures caused Calamohoy's death.

Quoting an initial report of the Singaporean police showed to them by the Department of Foreign Affairs in Manila, Calamohoy's family told ABS-CBN NEWS that Janeth supposedly died after jumping from the fifth floor of a condominium she is sharing with her live-in partner last August 30.

It is unclear up to this time when Calamohoy, who hails from the province of Zamboanga Sibugay, actually began living in Singapore.

Her younger sister, Selfa, said Janeth managed to contact her family only late last year after almost a decade of being away from home.

Representatives from the labor department immediately extended assistance to Calamohoy's family, but they discovered later that Janeth was not a documented overseas Filipino worker.

Apparently, Calamohoy went to Singapore after she was petitioned by her boyfriend, identified through her death certificate, as a certain Kristensen Lars Hyldgaard.

According to Calamohoy's family, they vaguely know Janeth's live-in partner, except that he sired her a child. The family also became suspicious after receiving information that Hyldgarrd allegedly refused to work out Calamohoy's papers even after her death.

The DFA reportedly advised the Calamohoy family that it would take at least a month before Singaporean authorities could wrap up its probe on the real cause of Janeth's death.

The DFA likewise assured that the family will be furnished a copy of the report, once it is made available by the Singaporean government.

But suspecting that there could have been foul play, Janeth's family has requested the National Bureau of Investigation in Zamboaga City to perform a separate autopsy on her remains.

Selfa insisted, she could hardly believe her sister committed suicide for two reasons: one, Janeth was raising her young boy; second, she returned to her hometown in 2007 to fix her school papers, since she wanted to pursue her studies in Singapore.

Accordingly, Janeth did not even finish her elementary schooling, since she left home when she was 13.

A representative from the regional office of the Overseas Worker's Welfare Administration said that they will continue to help the Calamohoy family, even if Janeth is not an OFW.

Angeles Engalla, head of Programs and Services Division of OWWA-9 said, they will try to assist the Calamohoy family in coordinating with the labor department's counterparts in Singapore to help determine the real cause of Janeth's death and possibly locate her young boy.