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DFA checking for Filipino casualties after van rams packed restaurant in Germany

(Eagle News)–The Department of Foreign Affairs is still checking whether there were Filipino casualties when a vehicle plowed into a crowd of pedestrians in Munster, Germany. In a DFA statement, Embassy Chargè d’Affaires Lilibeth Pono said around 4,100 of the 22,500 Filipinos are in North Rhine-Westphalia, where Munster is located. She said the Embassy has also asked the Essen Honorary Consul in Essen, Heinz-Peter Heidrich, to coordinate with police  in Munster. Pono said members of the […]