BALANGA CITY, Bataan: The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines–Episcopal Commission on the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People (CBCP–ECMI) on Saturday condemned the brutal rape of an Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) in Saudi Arabia and urged the government to hold her placement agency accountable.

The Department of Foreign Affairs has identified the victim as Irma Edloy who died Thursday night of heart attack reportedly after seeing her alleged rapist at a hospital in Riyadh.

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