Philippine flood victim’s body to be returned

THE body of the Filipino woman who drowned when her basement flat was submerged during last week’s flooding in Dublin will be flown home tomorrow.

Celia de Jesus today lies in repose at the Mortuary Chapel at Our Lady’s Hospice, Harold’s Cross, where she had worked in the years before she died last week. Following a funeral service tomorrow at the hospice, her body will be taken to Dublin Airport and flown home to the Philippines.

A 58-year-old mother of one, Ms de Jesus had been planning to return home to Quezon City in the Philippines for a holiday to be with her husband Angelito and her teenage son, Michael Kevin.