{"id":214766,"date":"2019-05-18T00:48:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T04:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=214766"},"modified":"2019-05-18T00:48:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T04:48:52","slug":"ph-coordinating-with-kuwait-over-probe-on-ofws-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/05\/18\/ph-coordinating-with-kuwait-over-probe-on-ofws-death\/","title":{"rendered":"PH coordinating with Kuwait over probe on OFW&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_187845\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-187845\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Department-of-Foreign-Affairs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-187845\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Department-of-Foreign-Affairs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Department-of-Foreign-Affairs.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Department-of-Foreign-Affairs-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Department-of-Foreign-Affairs-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Department-of-Foreign-Affairs-20x15.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-187845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;The Embassy is in close coordination with local authorities to gather evidence and investigate the untimely demise of the Filipina,&#8221; it said Friday. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dfaphl\/photos\/a.138804356274407\/675777269243777\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dfaphl\/\">Department of Foreign Affairs, Republic of the Philippines\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said the Philippines is coordinating with Kuwaiti authorities in investigating the death of a Filipino household worker in the Gulf state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Embassy is in close coordination with local authorities to gather evidence and investigate the untimely demise of the Filipina,&#8221; it said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Reports said Constancia Lago Dayag, 47, an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) from Agadanan, Isabela, was pronounced dead on arrival after being rushed to the Al-Sabah Hospital in Kuwait on May 14. Her body bore various contusions and hematoma, as well as signs of sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>Charge d&#8217;affaires of the Philippine Embassy in Kuwait, Mohd. Noordin Pendosina Lomondot, said they have requested Kuwait\u2019s General<\/p>\n<p>Forensics and Evidence Department to expedite the release of the forensic report, which is usually processed within four to six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The DFA did not identify the reason behind her death but said she was deployed as a household service worker to Kuwait in January 2016 and returned in 2018 as a Balik-Manggagawa on a second contract with the same Kuwaiti employer.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippine Embassy in Kuwait received the case on May 16 and immediately assigned a lawyer to handle it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said the Philippines is coordinating with Kuwaiti authorities in investigating the death of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":187845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-joyce-ann-l-rocamora","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214767,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214766\/revisions\/214767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}