{"id":35653,"date":"2014-12-17T14:54:03","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T06:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=35653"},"modified":"2014-12-17T14:59:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T06:59:41","slug":"ofw-in-kuwait-dies-after-being-mauled-by-employers-pet-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/12\/17\/ofw-in-kuwait-dies-after-being-mauled-by-employers-pet-lion\/","title":{"rendered":"OFW in Kuwait dies after being mauled by employer\u2019s pet lion"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_35656\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35656\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_233938150.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35656\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_233938150.jpg\" alt=\"Shutterstock photo\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_233938150.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_233938150-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_233938150-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_233938150-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shutterstock photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An overseas Filipino worker (OFW) employed as a domestic helper in Kuwait died a few days after being attacked by her employer\u2019s pet lion.<\/p>\n<p>Lourdes Abejuela was doing laundry on the rooftop of the house in which she was employed, when her employer\u2019s pet lion \u2013 which was kept in a cage on the rooftop \u2013 escaped from its enclosure and attacked the unsuspecting victim.<\/p>\n<p>Friend and fellow OFW, Nieva Edullantes, told reporters that Abejuela suffered from deep bite wounds on her left leg, and was taken to hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, however, was under orders from her employer not tell doctors that she had been bitten by a lion, as it is against Kuwaiti law to keep wild animals as pets.<\/p>\n<p>The medical staff who attended to Abejuela were told that the bite wounds had been inflicted by a dog, and the patient was discharged\u00a0 shortly after treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lion attacked her. She was rushed to a hospital, but then the hospital was not informed that she was bitten by a lion. Her employer requested her not to tell what happened. So when she was in the hospital, she was released immediately,\u201d Edullante said, speaking in Filipino.<\/p>\n<p>According to Edullante, Abejuela experienced headaches some days after having been treated for the wound. This prompted the latter\u2019s employer to once more bring her to hospital, where she died on Wednesday, December 10.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cried, it was painful. We left our family in the Philippines and this was what happened? We were hurt. I want justice,\u201d Edullantes said in Filipino.<\/p>\n<p>Abejuela was able to inform her family about the incident via a Facebook post dated December 6.<\/p>\n<p>The case is still under further investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An overseas Filipino worker (OFW) employed as a domestic helper in Kuwait died a few days after being attacked by &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":35656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95,7265],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","category-news-weird","mauthors-angie-duarte","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35653","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=35653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}