{"id":44387,"date":"2015-03-09T17:13:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T09:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=44387"},"modified":"2015-03-09T17:13:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T09:13:57","slug":"4-filipinos-among-9-foreigners-abducted-from-libya-oil-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/09\/4-filipinos-among-9-foreigners-abducted-from-libya-oil-field\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Filipinos among 9 foreigners abducted from Libya oil field"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_41162\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41162\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/shutterstock_85467844.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41162\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/shutterstock_85467844.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/shutterstock_85467844.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/shutterstock_85467844-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2014 Four Filipinos are among nine foreigners abducted by still-unidentified armed men from an oil field in central Libya and their abductors have yet to communicate any demand, officials said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Department of Foreign Affairs spokesman Charles Jose said the Philippines was working with the employer of the nine, Austrian-owned VAOS Oil Service, the Libyan government and embassies of the other foreigners abducted on Friday. An Austrian, a Czech, two Bangladeshis and a Ghana national were also taken.<\/p>\n<p>Austria&#8217;s Foreign Ministry believes the attackers are Islamic State-allied militants from nearby Sirte, but Jose said &#8220;we can&#8217;t say at this point&#8221; if they are.<\/p>\n<p>The incident brings the total number of Filipinos missing in Libya to seven. Three others were snatched in another oil field on Feb. 3 and their whereabouts also remain unknown.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These cases underscore the escalating threat to the safety and security of Filipino oil workers in Libyan oil fields which have been targeted by armed groups in recent weeks,&#8221; Jose said.<\/p>\n<p>He appealed to around 4,000 Filipinos still in Libya to get in touch with the Philippine embassy and avail of the government&#8217;s mandatory repatriation program which covers the cost of travel back to the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>The Al-Ghani oil field had suspended operation for two weeks prior to the attack and most of the workers had left by the time the gunmen arrived there, he added.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Philippine diplomats met with 52 other Filipino employees of VAOS Oil at the company&#8217;s headquarters in Tripoli. Jose said 36 of the 52 Filipinos have said they want to go home and more are expected to sign up for repatriation in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines is among the world&#8217;s top labor exporters with about a tenth of its 100 million people working abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2014 Four Filipinos are among nine foreigners abducted by still-unidentified armed men from an oil field in central &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":41162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news-ph","mauthors-the-associated-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44387","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=44387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}