MANILA,
Philippines — Despite the ongoing
civil war that is presently happening in Libya, a Filipino nurse was kidnapped
and raped by the Libyan teens. The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) confirmed
the report on Thursday.
The unidentified
Filipina was grabbed forcefully in front of her residence by four armed Libyan
youth on Wednesday and was released after she a few hours later after being
mistreated. The DFA spokesman Charles
Jose said the Filipino nurse was brought the Philippine embassy and underwent a
medical check-up.
Speaking to one of a
Philippine News Channel on Wednesday, Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del
Rosario repeated the government's call to Filipinos in Libya to immediately
seek deportation as the Philippine agency will send a ship to evacuate 1,000
Filipinos from Libya.
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The Tunisian foreign
minister said that thee are about 6,000 people a day have escaped Libya into Tunisia
this week. So far this is the biggest
influx since Libya's 2011 civil war and this record shows the increase turmoil
as the rival militias clash over control of the airport in the capital Tripoli.
Tunisia is the neighbor of Libya and the closest country that the victims could
enter.
The weeks-long fighting is
the worst violence seen in the Libyan capital since the war. Approximately 100
people have been killed while there are 400 others wounded. Most part of the
airport has already been destroyed because of the war. A gunfire hit
the airport oil depots that cause a giant fire ranging for the past
three days. Residents are forced to
evacuate while firefighters largely unable to cool it down because of clashes.
