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The three girls had thought their father died in an accident.
Last week, they found out that Mr Alagu Periyakaruppan, 46, had killed himself, a traumatic discovery that could haunt them for years.
Last Friday, State Coroner Kamala Ponnampalam ruled the Indian national’s death as a suicide. He had been a construction worker here since 2009.
On April 19, he was admitted to Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH) for a fever and headache, and later tested positive for Covid-19.
Five days later, in the pre-dawn hours of April 23, he recorded two videos on his mobile phone, one of which explained what he was going to do. He then removed a glass pane from a window, climbed through it and fell to his death.
The family was informed of the coroner’s inquiry findings by a volunteer from migrant worker social enterprise ItsRainingRaincoats last Friday.
Speaking to The New Paper in Tamil through the volunteer, Mr Alagu’s wife, Madam A. Panjali, 40, said the family, who lives in a village in the Andaman Islands, India, is struggling with the news.
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