SINGAPORE - Ms Abigail Danao Leste - one of two women who died after being hit by a car at Lucky Plaza on Sunday - was the sole breadwinner of her family. Now that she is dead, her two children are at a loss.
"We don't know what we are going to do now that she is gone. We don't know where to start," her 21-year-old daughter Jackie Lyne Leste told the Straits Times.
Her mother, who was 41, was separated from her husband and was the only one supporting the family, said Ms Leste, who has an older brother who is 22.
A car making a U-turn on Nutmeg Road on Sunday afternoon had careened into the sidewalk where Ms Abigail Leste, her sister and four of their close friends, were having a picnic.
The car crashed through a metal railing, sending the women - all domestic helpers - plunging several metres onto the Lucky Plaza carpark exit lane below.Ms Leste, who had worked in Singapore for more than 20 years, had planned to go back home to Cagayan in the Philippines, to attend her daughter's graduation ceremony, said the younger Ms Leste who just completed her degree in hospitality industry management.
Instead, she and her brother Mr Jhef Umoquit Leste, are now waiting for their mother's body to arrive.
Their relatives in Singapore are helping to make the arrangements, said Ms Leste who has an aunt working here.
Ms Leste who is unmarried has a 2-year-old son named John Benedict whom her mother doted on. The last time they spoke on the phone, on the same day the accident happened, her mother had told her to take good care of her son, Ms Leste said.
In a Facebook post on Monday, her brother said: "We can't go on without you".
"Ma, what are we going to do now? You even called us yesterday and we had a good conversation. And then something happened to you," he wrote in Ilocano, a dialect commonly spoken by people in the northern part of the Philippines including Cagayan, in the north-eastern part of Luzon island.
The siblings have not seen their mother since 2016, he added.
"Please come home alive even though our lives won't be easy...I will wait here with my younger sibling. You're the only one left to help us."
The six victims of the accident were a close-knit group. Two of the women - Ms Arlyn Picar Nucos, 50, who died, and Ms Arceli, 56, who was injured and remains warded at Tan Tock Seng Hospital - were siblings.
Two in the group of six are believed to be relatives: Ms Egnal Layugan Limbauan, 43, and Ms Demet Limbauan Limbauan, 37. While Ms Demet has since been discharged, Ms Egnal is hospitalised.
The last woman in the group, Ms Laila Flores Laudencia, 44, has also been discharged.
Additional reporting by Trixia Enriquez Carungcong
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