A Filipino has been arrested by police in Vienna for the murder of Filipina housekeeper Romalyn Basalo, whose body was found inside the residence of a Lebanese ambassador on Dec. 29. The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has yet to get the name of the suspect, who has reportedly confessed to stabbing the 30-year-old victim to death in the residence of Lebanese Ambassador to Vienna Ishaya El Khoury. The envoy was in Lebanon when the crime happened. Basalo's body was found by a Filipina stay-out cook of the ambassador at 10 A.M. Tuesday (Vienna time). An investigator told ABS-CBN Europe New Bureau that the “murderer might have strangled the victim with an electric wire and stabbed her” repeatedly. Police investigators said the possible motive for the murder could have been jealousy because Basalo has reportedly made several “acquaintances” while guarding the ambassador's residence. - ABS
