Autopsy sought for Kuwait OFW

SANTIAGO CITY — The city government called on the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) to look deeper into the cause of death of a female overseas worker from here who reportedly fell off a six-story building in Kuwait last June 4.

Mayor Amelita Navarro, acting on behalf of the family of 37-year-old Luisita Ramos-Latorza, also requested the National Bureau of Investigation for assistance in the conduct of an autopsy on her body to validate the real cause of her death.

Navarro made the requests to the OWWA and NBI through former Sen. Heherson Alvarez, also a native of this city, following the arrival of Latorza’s remains here last Thursday.

According to documents, including those from the Al-Aidan Hospital in Kuwait, Latorza sustained fractured ribs, broken spinal cord, punctured lungs, liver, spleen and right kidney, and internal bleeding of breast and stomach due to the fall.

Latorza’s sister, Tess Casareno, however, said they noticed wounds made with a sharp object in her neck, chest and left part of the body, as well as signs that she was hit on the head and tied up before the alleged accident.

Latorza left for Kuwait last December, leaving behind her husband, Socrates, and their two children aged three and six. — Charlie Lagasca