The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Friday confirmed that seven Filipino medical workers were among the 52 people who were killed in a suicide bomb attack on the defense ministry in Yemen.

The hospital where the Filipinos were working is located inside the ministry’s compound, in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, Raul Hernandez, Foreign Affairs spokesman, said.

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