2nd asylum seeker commits suicide

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SYDNEY - AN IRAQI man has committed suicide in immigration detention in Australia after his asylum claims were twice refused, refugee advocates said on Tuesday, in the second such death in as many months.

The government confirmed that an inmate at Sydney's Villawood detention centre had died, but refused to provide further details. The suicide follows that of 36-year-old Fijian Josefa Rauluni, who jumped to his death from a building at Villawood in September.

Human rights supporters said the man who had hanged himself in a bathroom on Tuesday was an Iraqi in his 40s who had left a wife and four children behind in Iraq, and arrived in Australia on a boat about a year ago.

'He has been twice rejected,' Ian Rintoul of the Refugee Action Coalition.

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