President Benigno Aquino 3rd has directed Justice Secretary Leila de Lima to meet with the relatives of Hong Kong tourists who died in the hostage-taking incident in Manila in 2010, according to Palace deputy spokesman Abigail Valte.

“The Justice Secretary was tasked to brief—along with our Consul General in Hong Kong—to give the survivors as well as the families of those who were lost a briefing on the status of the cases pending here in our courts,” Valte said.

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