Father kills his 2 kids, commits suicide in South Cotabato
SOUTH COTABATO, Philippines — A farmer restive over the absence of his wife in Manila leaving next week for work in Saudi Arabia killed his two children before committing suicide Tuesday night in Tantangan town.
Relatives said the 29-year-old Willy Enalbas already manifested changes in behavior three days before.
Superintendent Aldrin Gonzalez, spokesman of the Police Regional Office-12, said Wednesday Enalbas first stabbed his two children, both of pre-school ages, with a sharp knife while inside their house in Barangay Dumadalig in Tantangan, South Cotabato before he hanged himself using a rope tied on one of the wooden roof trusses of their house.
A sister of Enalbas, Emily, told reporters Wednesday that he was seen by neighbors drinking liquor at one side of their yard before he killed his children and himself.
Neighbors had told investigators that Enalbas seemed distraught with the absence of his wife, who is to leave for the Middle East next week to work there as maid.
Enalbas still has four older children staying with her mother residing in a separate house in the same barangay.
Friends of Enalbas said he had asked them several days prior to turn over his four children in his mother’s house to the Department of Social Welfare and Development if something happens to him.
Emily said none of his friends and his relatives he had talked to had ever thought his brother and his two children will perish via such bizarre deaths.
In 2016, the Department of Health, in partnership with the World Health Organization and the Natasha Goulbourn Foundation, launched "Hopeline Project" which aims to prevent the occurrence of suicides in the country.
READ: DOH opens 'Hopeline Project' to prevent suicides
The numbers to call are the following: (02) 805-HOPE (4673); 0917 558 HOPE (4673) and 2919. These numbers are toll-free for GLOBE and TM subscribers.
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