Body of slain Filipina OFW returning to Manila Wednesday

January 7, 2020

The body of overseas Filipino worker Jeanelyn Villavende is set to arrive home  Wednesday afternoon from Kuwait where she was killed allegedly by her employers.

In an interview, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III disclosed that Villavende’s remains will be  flown home to Mindanao on Thursday morning.

Villavende's death resulted in the Philippines enforcing a partial deployment ban for newly-hired household service workers to Kuwait last week.

"The Department of Foreign Affairs and OWWA (Overseas Workers Welfare Administration) Administrator Hans Cacdac might go to the airport for her," said Bello.

"I am going to General Santos City on Friday. I will visit her there," he said.

The family of Villavende met with Bello and Cacdac at the labor department  in Manila.

In the embalment certificate released by Bello, it said Villavende’s death was caused by "acute failure of heart and respiration as result by shock and multiple injuries (in the) vascular nervous system".

Bello asked for the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to conduct another autopsy.

"For our own satisfaction, especially the President, we want a validation from our own NBI," said Bello. DMS