{"id":225861,"date":"2019-08-06T18:47:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T22:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=225861"},"modified":"2019-08-06T18:47:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T22:47:31","slug":"ph-evacuates-6-filipinos-thai-from-tripoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/08\/06\/ph-evacuates-6-filipinos-thai-from-tripoli\/","title":{"rendered":"PH evacuates 6 Filipinos, Thai from Tripoli"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The six Filipinos who were evacuated by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhinLibya?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PhinLibya<\/a> from Tripoli on Monday are now at the Tunis Carthage International Airport and will soon be boarding the flight that would take them home to Manila. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/teddyboylocsin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@teddyboylocsin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DFAPHL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DFAPHL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/doleph?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@doleph<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AzrSBi96fT\">pic.twitter.com\/AzrSBi96fT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elmer G Cato (@elmer_cato) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elmer_cato\/status\/1158734690867716096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 6, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>&#8212; Six Filipinos and one Thai have been evacuated from the strife-stricken Libya on Monday, the Philippine embassy in Tripoli announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires Elmer Cato said this brings to 99 the number of Filipinos repatriated to Manila since the conflict started in Tripoli four months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Among the latest batch assisted by the Philippine government was a Thai married to one of the six Filipinos who had requested assistance from the embassy.<\/p>\n<p>The embassy provided the Thai with food and shelter while awaiting evacuation; facilitated the issuance of his exit and transit visas; and transported him to Tunis.<\/p>\n<p>Cato said this &#8220;was in line with the instructions of Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr.&#8221; for the embassy to open its doors to distressed nationals from other Southeast Asian countries.<\/p>\n<p>Cato said the evacuees, who include four female nurses, a male teacher, and a male worker, &#8220;are now on their way to Tunis where they will take their flight to the Philippines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Violent clashes continue to rage in the outskirts of the Libyan capital. Last month, a migration detention center in Tripoli was hit by an airstrike killing 40 and injuring 80.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, a second major drone strike was reported on the southern Libyan town of Murzuq killing at least 43 and wounding 51 others.<\/p>\n<p>In his statement, Cato assured that embassy remains ready to assist any of the remaining 1,000 Filipinos still in Tripoli who may want to be repatriated.<\/p>\n<p>The embassy is also on standby to assist Filipinos displaced by the ongoing fighting, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Three other Filipinos have requested the assistance of the embassy and will be repatriated as soon as Libyan authorities issue their exit visas, Cato said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The six Filipinos who were evacuated by @PhinLibya from Tripoli on Monday are now at the Tunis Carthage International Airport &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":225862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-joyce-ann-l-rocamora","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225863,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225861\/revisions\/225863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}