OWWA had confirmed that 10 Overseas Filipino Workers had died from a helicopter crash in Afghanistan. 16 had died from the said crash and 10 of these are Filipinos.  Some of these Filipino workers’ families are shocked that their loved ones had died from the said chopper crash when all the while they thought their loved ones are working elsewhere. One particular worker was working in Afghanistan when his family thought he was deployed in Dubai.

It is feared that they are undocumented since there is a travel ban in the Philippines to Afghanistan but still, the Department of Foreign Affairs will do their best to give assistance for the workers and for their bodies to be sent back to the country after they have been recovered from the crash site.