PH exerting efforts to locate 4 missing Filipinos in Myanmar – Department of Foreign Affairs

[Starmix]

According to the report, the Philippine Embassy in Yangon is working double-time to locate the four missing Filipinos following last week's magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Wednesday. The four are feared trapped in the 12-story Sky Villa Condominium in Mandalay City, one of the worst disaster sites in the Southeast Asian state.

In an interview, DFA Office of Migration Affairs Director Catherine Alpay said the majority of those retrieved from the Sky Villa since Tuesday were already deceased. The PH embassy team is doubling their efforts to locate those four Filipinos. They are believed to be already in a decomposition state and they have to cremate the decomposed bodies and bring them to the PH forensic laboratory to identify if the dead bodies are Filipinos. Myanmar lacks facilities to do forensic tests.

The report said that more bodies were recovered but already in their decomposition state. A Filipino contingent, composed of nearly 100 doctors and urban search and rescue experts, was earlier sent to Myanmar to assist in the response operations. The DFA said all its members have arrived in the country and have set up their facilities and command center in Naypyidaw.









Report Source: PNA

 

[kit_hung]

the Philippine Embassy in Yangon is working double-time to locate the four missing Filipinos following last week's magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Wednesday.

The situation has become very difficult as the number of lives lost has been high and rescue teams are still digging and searching the badly affected areas. The families and friends of the Filipinos are waiting with great hope that they will be found safe. The government reiterates their commitment.

 

[Starmix]

This was already resolved by the Ph embassy in Myanmar. Those missing Filipinos were dead. May God give these 4 people eternal peace.