Statement: On Assistance Extended to Filipino Pilgrims

24 August 2018 – The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has extended its assistance to several Filipino hajj pilgrims after robbers ransacked their hotel rooms in Makkah on Thursday.

The Philippine Embassy in Riyadh sent a team to assist the pilgrims in reporting the robbery to police authorities and in getting the victims compensated by hotel management.

Ambassador Adnan V. Alonto said the still unidentified robbers broke into five rooms and took the valuables of the Filipino pilgrims while they were in Minah. END