MANILA (Mindanao Examiner / 18 Apr) – A missing U.S. Peace Corps volunteer was found dead Wednesday on a mountain trail, north of the Philippines, Filipino security officials said.
Julia Campbell, 40, was missing since April 8 in Ifugao province where she intended to hike alone.
Campbell’s body was found by soldiers in Batad village in Banaue, near where she had been last seen. The cause of her death is still unknown and officials would not say whether she had fallen from a cliff or had been murdered.
There are currently 137 Peace Corps Volunteers serving in the Philippines. More than 8,000 volunteers have served in the country since 1961, making it the second oldest Peace Corps program in the world.
Campbell, from Fairfax, Virginia, had served as a college teacher in Legazpi in southern Luzon since she began her Peace Corps service in the Philippines in March 2005. (Mindanao Examiner)
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