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Pia Lee-Brago - The Philippine Star
April 10, 2025 | 12:00am
People sort through the rubble of a collapsed building in Mandalay on April 5, 2025, following the March 28 earthquake. The shallow 7.7-magnitude earthquake on March 28 flattened buildings across Myanmar, killing more than 3,000 people and making thousands more homeless.
AFP / Zaw Htun
MANILA, Philippines — One of four missing Filipinos in Mandalay, Myanmar following a 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck the country on March 28 has been confirmed dead, the Department of Foreign Affairs said yesterday.
“The Department of Foreign Affairs regrets to inform the nation that the remains of one of the four missing Filipinos in Mandalay, Myanmar have been positively identified,” the DFA said.
Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Eduardo Jose de Vega said in an interview on TeleRadyo Serbisyo that the overseas Filipino worker’s remains were retrieved Tuesday night. Experts from the National Bureau of Investigation identified the remains through tattoo and passport.
The repatriation of the remains, De Vega said, could be difficult because the body was severely decomposed.
Alvin Aragon announced in a social media post that the body of his brother Francis, who was working in Myanmar as a teacher, has been found.
“Ipinapaalam po [namin] na nakita na po [‘yung’ kapatid namin at masakit man sa amin [tanggapin na kasama na siya] ni Lord [ngayon],” Aragon said in a Facebook post, acknowledging the passing of his brother.
The DFA said search for the three other Filipinos still unaccounted for continues.
“We continue to work and hope for the best for the remaining three Filipinos still unaccounted for as a result of the powerful earthquake which hit Myanmar last 28th of March,” the DFA said.
More than 3,500 people have reportedly been killed and thousands more have been injured, many of them children.
