Fired Filipino seafarer commits suicide | Global News

Fired Filipino seafarer commits suicide

/ 01:13 AM December 16, 2015

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John Elejan, a suicide. FACEBOOK

SAN FRANCISCO–A 31-year-old seafarer named John Gregg Elejan hanged himself at a crewing office in Manila on Saturday, December 5 and was pronounced dead on arrival at a nearby hospital.

Elejan, was found hanging with a green water hose around his neck at the offices of Status Maritime Corporation, according to a report by Splash247.com.

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Elejan, an oiler crewmember, had been let go by his firm due to unspecified “bad behavior.”

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Recent reports from Swansea University show that seafaring as a career has the second highest rate of suicide in the world after coal mining.

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