The workers left Libya on chartered vehicles and were brought to the Tunisian border from where they took commercial flights back to Manila, where they arrived in separate batches the other day.
Representatives from the DFA, the Office of the Vice President, the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration received the returning workers upon their arrival in Manila. They were subsequently briefed on the government’s reintegration program and other benefits available to them.
The DFA estimates that there remain approximately 4,000 Filipinos in Libya despite the call by the Philippine Government for their mandatory evacuation as a result of the deteriorating security situation in that country.
The DFA continue to appeal to Filipinos who are still in Libya to get in touch with the Philippine Embassy in order to begin the process of their repatriation.
The DFA raised alert level 4 or mandatory evacuation warning over Libya because of the unstable political and security situation there.
Armed factions in Libya have been fighting for over a month to take control of the country’s capital, Tripoli.
Meanwhile, the Philippine Embassy in Tripoli reported that 35 Filipinos, composed of 24 nurses and 5 minors from Sirte and the rest from Tripoli were now in Turkey accompanied by the Embassy team led by Charge d’Affaires Adel Cruz.
The Embassy team based in Tunisia stands ready to provide them with all the appropriate consular and airport assistance.
The Embassy will continue to closely monitor the condition of Filipinos in Libya and encourage those who remain there to avail themselves of the Philippine Government’s repatriation offer as soon as possible.
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