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The Middle East war has claimed its second victim from the Philippines, the country has said, when a missile struck the home of a Filipina living in Israel.
The woman was killed in the port city of Haifa on Sunday “alongside her Israeli husband and elderly parents-in-law”, the Philippine foreign affairs department said on Tuesday, without naming the victims.
Israeli rescue services said on Monday that the bodies of four people had been recovered from the rubble of a residential building in the city after it was struck by an Iranian missile the previous day.
Israeli news outlets said the Filipina victim and her family had been pulled from the rubble of their collapsed residence after an hours-long rescue effort.
The foreign affairs department said on Tuesday that the Philippine embassy in Tel Aviv was assisting with arrangements for the “earliest possible repatriation of her remains despite the current travel situation in the region”, AFP reported.
A 32-year-old caregiver, Mary Ann Velasquez De Vera, became the war’s first Philippine fatality on 1 March as she attempted to escort her elderly ward to an Israeli bomb shelter.
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