MANILA – The bodies of two Filipinos have been recovered from the rubble after a bridge in Taiwan collapsed on Tuesday, the Manila Economic and Cultural Office said Wednesday.
One Filipino fisherman remains missing, MECO director for administration Gerry De Belen said.
3 Filipinos still missing after Taiwan bridge collapse; 5 others injured
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) identified the fatalities as Andree Serencio and Gorge Impang, and the missing fisherman as Romulo Escalicas Jr.
Impang’s family will receive all benefits as he was an active member of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration. Serencio, meanwhile, was an inactive OWWA member as of 2017, DOLE said.
“We will assist in the repatriation of human remains and to process all benefits and entitlements arising from the accident,” it said in a statement.
Rescuers are also searching for an Indonesian fisherman, local authorities said.
Divers joined hundreds of rescuers in the search effort, using cranes and excavators to raise the wreckage of two fishing boats after Tuesday’s accident injured 10 people, most of them fishermen from Indonesia and the Philippines. (ABS-CBN News/PN)
