Woman thought killed in UN attack alive

Woman thought killed in UN attack alive

PHILIPPINES: A Filipino woman who was reported to have been killed in the bombing of the United Nations office in Baghdad is still alive, family members and a Philippine official said.

Marilyn Manuel, a UN staffer, was being treated at a military hospital outside Baghdad, acting Foreign Secretary Franklin Ebdalin said on Friday.

Ebdalin had no details on her condition, but said she would be transferred to another hospital in the Iraqi capital. He said the UN earlier reported that Manuel and another Filipino, Ranillo Buenaventura, were killed in the bombing on Tuesday.

Manuel's family in New York had been making funeral plans for her when she called them at 3 a.m. on Thursday, a newspaper reported.

Marilyn Manuel told her daughter, Vanessa Manuel Mazzullo, 29, that she didn't know how she had gotten out of the UN building, the newspaper said. -- AP