THE PHILIPPINE Embassy in Libya has monitored 138 Filipino workers trying to return to Libya amid a deployment ban, it said in a social media post on Sunday.

Chargés d’ Affaires Elmer G. Cato warned recruitment agencies against sending new hires as fighting in Tripoli rages.

He said the embassy has received information that another batch of 100 Filipinos who used to work in Libya was planning to return.

Only overseas Filipino workers in areas under Alert Level 2 are allowed to come home and return to their jobs in Libya, Mr. Cato said.

The embassy earlier appealed to families of Filipinos working in Libya to convince them to come home. More than 1,000 Filipinos have been affected by fighting in Libya, where militia forces are seeking to take Tripoli from an internationally recognized government. — Charmaine A. Tadalan

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