The Kuwaiti government and Interpol are hunting the employers of a Filipino domestic worker whose body was found in a freezer in an apartment in Kuwait city.
In Manila, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said the maid had been identified as Joanna Daniela Demafelis, 29, from Iloilo on Panay Island in the center of the Philippine archipelago, the Philippine Daily Inquirer reported. She had worked for a Lebanese-Syrian couple.
The couple, Nader Essam Assaf and Muna Hasoun, left Kuwait in 2016 and reportedly fled to Lebanon.
Relatives of Assaf suspect that his wife was to blame for the death of Demafelis because she was allegedly shrewd and had a controlling influence on Assaf, Arab Times reported.
Raul Dado, executive director at the Office of Migrant Workers Affairs, said the Kuwaiti government is coordinating with Interpol to track down the couple, GMA News reported.
“Kuwait authorities are searching for the couple in Lebanon to arrest them with the help of Interpol,” Dado said.
Eva Demafelis, the victim’s mother, has demanded justice for her daughter’s death and wants her body to be brought back home to the Philippines, ABS-CBN News reported.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is said to have expressed anger about the case during a press conference on Friday, reportedly ordering the labor department to help repatriate all Filipinos keen to return from Kuwait.
Seven Filipinos have died in Kuwait in recent times, prompting a government to order a deployment ban on the Gulf State. Duterte had previously threatened to withdraw all Filipinos from the small nation if another worker died there.
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Tugisin at i death penalty ang dalawang yan..
May justice be served????????
The suspects should be put in death penalty….Thats not fair if we foreigners commit crimes in arab countries ,the arab government will easily give an order of death penalty…and what about now, its our rights to have the justice….
Nader Essam Assaf and Muna Hasoun
Buhay ang kinuha buhay din ang kapalit..Pugutan ng ulo mag aswang demonio na yun ska babayarin cla ng mahal ..demonio talaga klaseng tao na ganyan
Ipasok sa freezer na buhay mga Yan…
dpat unahan na ng mga pinoy ung mga amo nila ba mron masamang balak sa kanila sang sa cla ang susunod na ipauwing nka kabaong.
Put in death penalty this suspect so that all arabic people peole alarm for doing not good for his employer
dapat bitay hatol sa mag aswang yun. mga demonyo!
Tama buhay din ang kabayaran
I wish they will punish to death through hanging or beheaded!
They have to show to us that the Shariah law will served justice for the innocent victims. Condem this brutal crime they did to poor and innocent victims.
Pabalik balik yang balita ng asia times n yan
Absolutely right.
That’s our Pres. action man, he really cares for the ofws who want to earn a descent living for their families in the Philippines. Mabuhay Pres. Digong
Death penalty
Terrible couple!
Horrible fate awaits them. If somebody can just PLEASE SKIN THEM ALIVE.
You are both a DISGRACE to humanity.
Good news, narinig ko sa radyo kanina na nahuli na daw itong mga walanghiyang mag asawa. Bitayin at pagbayarin ng multa para sa pamilya ng biktima!!