A Tamil asylum seeker, admitted to Logan hospital suffering severe depression, has died days after attempting to take his own life.
The man, who leaves behind a wife and four children in Sri Lanka, arrived in Australia by boat in 2012.
He was among the first group of asylum seekers sent to Nauru by the Labor government under Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
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