That dream was wiped away when Joey along with three other
overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) died in a road mishap on late Sunday night.
The news was devastating for Jeamelle that the only words
she was able to utter in an interview on Wednesday was “please help us.”
Those words were directed to the Department of Foreign
Affairs (DFA) as a request to hasten the repatriation of the bodies of the
victims.
In another interview yesterday, Jeamelle repeated the same
to Radyo Bulacan, but noted that Joey’s remains might be repatriated by next
week.
“It might be next week, we don’t know yet, please help us,”
she said in vernacular during a phone patch interview.
A resident of Barangay Bambang in Bocaue town, Jeamelle said
she still do not know what to do. She
had four children with Joey.
Joey is a member of the housekeeping staff of the Coast
Edmonton Plaza Hotel in Edmonton City ,
Alberta , Canada .
On Sunday, Joey along with fellow hotel workers Anthony
Castillon, Josefina Velarde, and another unidentified Filipina died in a mishap
along the Queen Elizabeth II
Highway in Innisfail, some 120 kilometers north of
Calgary .
Another Filipina identified as Josephine Tamondong suffered
serious injuries and was rushed to Alberta
Hospital .
The CBC News website said that Tyler James Stevens, the
driver of the Range Rover that slammed to the victim’s Dogde Journey van is now
facing multiple charges including impaired driving causing death.
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