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Three Filipinos were killed while ten others were hospitalized from
a gas leak accident in a shipyard in Shanghai, China.
The Philippine Consulate General in Shanghai,
acting head of post Aileen Mendiola-Rau, reported to the Department
of Foreign Affairs that three Filipino seamen died of carbon dioxide
poisoning on May 22 from an accidental gas leak at the Chongming
Dadong Shipping Yard.
The fatalities were identified as Heracleof
Casas, 44, Ferdinand Armendares, 40, and Rex Villaruz, 37. Ten other
Filipino seamen were brought to the Chongming Hospital for
treatment. Their identities have not yet been released.
All the Filipino seamen were crewmembers of the
Panama-registered M/V Hakone.
The ten who were hospitalized had been cleared
from the accident but had run to the scene to help their colleagues.
However, they also succumbed to the effects of the gas leak,
resulting in their hospitalization.
At Kuwait, the Department of Foreign Affairs is
closely monitoring the investigation of the alleged murder of a
Filipina domestic worker in Kabd Desert, Kuwait.
The services of a private counsel have been
engaged by the department to help ensure protection of the rights of
the victim.
Philippine Ambassador to Kuwait Ricardo Endaya
reported to the department that Fatima Sagadan Maulana was found
dead in Kabd Desert on May 16.
Kuwaiti police authorities declared that Maulana
was probably murdered on May 9 as her body was already in the stage
of decomposition when it was found.
Contrary earlier to reports of the Kuwaiti
media, authorities said that the assailant had not burned the
victim’s body, and the department has not confirmed reports that
she had been raped. The body is still the subject of a forensic
investigation.
The principal suspect, a Kuwaiti national named
Mohammed Yassin Al-Mutairi, has already been arrested and charges
have filed against him.
Maulana, who hails from Carmen, Cotabato, was
the subject of a search after she failed to return to her
employer’s house after taking a day off on May 6.
-- Katrice R. Jalbuena
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