THE Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Wednesday said the government will continue to extend “all appropriate legal and consular assistance” to nine Filipinos sentenced by a Malaysian court to life in prison.

The troubled Filipinos were involved in an armed incursion in 2013 that killed at least 70 people and paralyzed a remote corner of Borneo for weeks.

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