MANILA: A Philippine domestic worker has been hospitalized in Saudi Arabia after her employer allegedly forced her to drink household bleach, Manila's foreign ministry said on Monday.

Domestic worker Agnes Mancilla underwent emergency abdominal surgery after she was taken, unconscious, to a hospital in Saudi's southwestern Jizan City on April 2, the ministry said.

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