DMW says no Filipino harmed in Moscow concert hall attack

A view shows the burning Crocus City Hall concert hall following the shooting incident in Krasnogorsk, outside Moscow, on March 22, 2024. Gunmen opened fire at a concert hall in a Moscow suburb on March 22, 2024 leaving dead and wounded before a major fire spread through the building, Moscow’s mayor and Russian news agencies reported. (Photo by Olga MALTSEVA / AFP)

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) confirmed on Saturday that no Filipino was harmed in the recent attack on a concert hall in Moscow, Russia.

DMW officer-in-charge Hans Leo Cacdac said this in a post on social media platform ‘X.’

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“We received information from Usec Ed de Vega of the @DFAPHL that no Filipino was hurt in the latest terrorist attack in a concert hall in Moscow. Our deepest sympathies and prayers for the families of the victims of the attack,” Cacdac said in the post.

In a report from Agence France-Presse (AFP), it said that more than 60 people were killed in the attack by gunmen that opened fire on a Moscow concert hall last March 22.

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“The bodies of the deceased are currently being examined. It is provisionally established that more than 60 people died in the terrorist attack. Unfortunately, the number of victims could rise,” the Investigative Committee said, as quoted in the AFP report.