Slain OFW’s remains arrive home
The remains of the overseas Filipino worker who was the latest victim of a series of bombing attacks and ambuscades in Iraq arrived yesterday afternoon at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) via Qatar but it was immediately flown by another plane to Olongapo City where his family was waiting there to claim him.
The Department of Foreign Affairs identified the victim as Federico Samson, an engineer working for the US electronics firm Lucent Technologies Inc., who died in an ambush staged by Iraqi rebels along the stretch of the road from Tikrit to Baghdad, which is reportedly proned to terrorist attacks.
The Filipino worker was killed in Kirkuk last Aug. 24 while traveling with two Filipino workers and two Iraqis.
Kirkuk is a war zone, Foreign Affairs spokesperson Gilbert Asuque said.
Asuque said there’s no word yet regarding the return of Pedro Galila and Roderick Tayo, two other Filipinos who survived an attack on their convoy.
Asuque said that a ban on deployment of Filipino workers in Iraq stays, citing Samson’s death to discourage those who are thinking of leaving the country for jobs in Iraq.
At the start of the ban in July 2004, only some 2,000 OFWs were in Iraq.
Today, the number has ballooned to close to 6,000. OFWs are pushed to find work in the war-torn country because of the promise of huge salaries. Many of them work in the American camps in Baghdad as cooks, accountants, and engineers.
Meanwhile, DFA Secretary Alberto Romulo has directed Ricardo Endaya of the Philippine embassy in Baghdad to investigate how Samson was able to enter Iraq despite the government ban on the deployment of Filipinos to that country. Florante S. Solmerin
The Department of Foreign Affairs identified the victim as Federico Samson, an engineer working for the US electronics firm Lucent Technologies Inc., who died in an ambush staged by Iraqi rebels along the stretch of the road from Tikrit to Baghdad, which is reportedly proned to terrorist attacks.
The Filipino worker was killed in Kirkuk last Aug. 24 while traveling with two Filipino workers and two Iraqis.
Kirkuk is a war zone, Foreign Affairs spokesperson Gilbert Asuque said.
Asuque said there’s no word yet regarding the return of Pedro Galila and Roderick Tayo, two other Filipinos who survived an attack on their convoy.
Asuque said that a ban on deployment of Filipino workers in Iraq stays, citing Samson’s death to discourage those who are thinking of leaving the country for jobs in Iraq.
At the start of the ban in July 2004, only some 2,000 OFWs were in Iraq.
Today, the number has ballooned to close to 6,000. OFWs are pushed to find work in the war-torn country because of the promise of huge salaries. Many of them work in the American camps in Baghdad as cooks, accountants, and engineers.
Meanwhile, DFA Secretary Alberto Romulo has directed Ricardo Endaya of the Philippine embassy in Baghdad to investigate how Samson was able to enter Iraq despite the government ban on the deployment of Filipinos to that country. Florante S. Solmerin
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