Another Pinoy peacekeeper's body pulled from Haiti rubble

Another body of a Filipino United Nations peacekeeper was pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building a week after a devastating quake hit Haiti. Military spokesman Lt. Col. Romeo Brawner Jr. said in an interview at Unang Balita that the body of Sgt. Eustacio Bermudez was retrieved from the rubble of the collapsed United Nations headquarters, formerly the Christopher Hotel, in Port-Au-Prince at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday (Manila time). "Good men must die but death cannot kill his name that has now made a mark to the AFP and the whole nation," Brawner later said in a statement issued to media in extending condolences to the family of Bermudez. Bermudez is the third confirmed Filipino fatality in the magnitude-7.0 quake that rocked the Caribbean island nation. He was a clerk at the Conduct and Discipline Unit/Force Provo Martial of the Philippine peacekeeping force in Haiti. Earlier confirmed killed in the quake was Jerome Yap, a United Nations staff member serving with the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). The Armed Forces of the Philippines also confirmed the death of Petty Officer 3 Pearly Panangui. Efforts were still ongoing to locate Grace Fabian and Geraldine Lalican, who remain trapped among the rubble in the Caribbean Supermarket area in Port-au-Prince. Also unaccounted for was Sgt. Janice Arocena, a clerk at the Chief of Staff, Central Registry. Brawner said the Philippine contingent involved in the rescue and retrieval operations in Haiti are in constant coordination with the United Nations Headquarters to bring home the bodies of the Filipinos killed in the quake as soon as possible. - with Nikka Corsino/LBG/RSJ/HGS, GMANews.TV