Philippines mourns Robredo’s death

Family, friends, peers and hundreds of individuals touched by the life and work of Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo mourn the death of the exemplary public servant. President Aquino personally relayed the news to the bereaved family that the body of Robredo was located and retrieved past 7am on August 21. Robredo’s body and those of the Piper Seneca plane’s pilots, Capt. Jessup Bahinting and Nepalese co-pilot, were found by technical divers 800m offshore, at a depth of 180ft, ending nearly 3 days of intense search off the Masbate City coast after the chartered plane he took from Cebu en route to Naga City crashed on Saturday, August 18. Robredo is a multi-awarded and well-regarded public servant who turned around Naga City as mayor, and recently as high-level Cabinet member of the Aquino government.

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