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Vehicles are stranded on a flooded street following torrential rain in the Gulf Emirate of Dubai on April 16, 2024. - Torrential rains and high winds lashed parts of the Gulf on April 16, as the death toll from storms in Oman rose to 18, many of them children. Flights were cancelled in Dubai, the region's financial hub, while schools were shut in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. (Photo by Giuseppe CACACE / AFP)

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Carmelle Lacuata

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Vehicles are stranded on a flooded street following torrential rain in the Gulf Emirate of Dubai on April 16, 2024. Giuseppe Cacace, AFP/file" src="https://news-workbench-api.abs-cbn.com/api/upload-raw/20240418120428/d5ba4c8114bd9f5377c06294b2f06ad922b3141c8ee2885803584468f6dd4464.jpg" class="fr-fil fr-dib"/><figcaption>Vehicles are stranded on a flooded street following torrential rain in the Gulf Emirate of Dubai on April 16, 2024. <em>Giuseppe Cacace, AFP/file</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) on Thursday said three overseas Filipino workers died during the flooding in the United Arab Emirates.</p><p>DMW officer-in-charge Undersecretary Hans Leo Cacdac, in a post on X, said two OFWs died due to suffocation inside their vehicle during the flood, while another died due to a vehicular accident.</p><p>“We shall provide utmost support and assistance to their families,” Cacdac added.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">With extreme sadness, we report the death of 3 OFWs during the flooding in UAE. Two OFWs died due to suffocation inside their vehicle during the flood. One other OFW died due to a vehicular accident. We shall provide utmost support and assistance to their families.</p>— hans leo j. cacdac (@HansLeoCacdac) <a href="https://twitter.com/HansLeoCacdac/status/1780909968792891446?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 18, 2024</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8"></script></div><p>Torrential rain flooded roads, homes and malls and briefly halted operations at Dubai&#x27;s airport as storms lashed the Gulf on Tuesday, after leaving at least 18 dead in Oman.</p><p>Dubai, the Middle East&#x27;s financial center, was paralyzed by the heavy storms that caused widespread flooding around the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.</p><p>Flagship shopping center Dubai Mall and Mall of the Emirates both suffered flooding and water was ankle-deep at at least one Dubai Metro station.</p><p>Roads and residential communities also suffered heavy flooding in scenes repeated around the oil-rich Emirates, a desert country where rain is an unusual event. <em>- with a report from Agence France-Presse</em></p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/world/2024/4/16/heavy-floods-hit-dubai-airport-as-oman-toll-rises-to-18-2355">Heavy floods hit Dubai, airport as Oman toll rises to 18</a></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable" frameBorder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RiwnI9Rhzzs?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" width="640"></iframe></span></div>

<p>The Department of Migrant Workers on Thursday said three overseas Filipino workers died during the flooding in the United Arab Emirates.</p>

The Department of Migrant Workers on Thursday said three overseas Filipino workers died during the flooding in the United Arab Emirates.

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3 OFWs died in UAE floods, DMW says

Carmelle Lacuata,

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Published April 18, 2024 07:32 PM PHT

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