{"id":246494,"date":"2026-01-15T18:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T18:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/246494\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T18:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T18:01:08","slug":"repatriation-bid-after-couple-unborn-child-die-in-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/246494\/","title":{"rendered":"Repatriation bid after couple, unborn child die in crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friends of a young family from the Philippines killed in a car crash in Co Antrim have launched a fundraising campaign to repatriate their bodies to the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>Kith and Ralph Singco were both passengers in one of two cars involved in a collision near the village of Crumlin a few miles from Belfast International Airport on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The two healthcare workers, who were both in their 30s, had celebrated their sixth wedding anniversary just hours before the collision and were expecting their first child in two months&#8217; time.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Singco, who was a nurse, and her unborn child died in hospital on Monday. Her husband, a care assistant, died yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>A Requiem Mass for the family will be held in St Vincent De Paul Church in Ligoneil in north Belfast next Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A Go Fund Me page set up by friends and family to raise funds to repatriate their bodies to the Philippines raised more than \u00a370,000.<\/p>\n<p>A number of other people involved in the collision sustained minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Police have appealed to anyone who witnessed the collision or who may have dashcam footage of the incident to contact detectives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friends of a young family from the Philippines killed in a car crash in Co Antrim have launched&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-246494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}