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MANILA renewed calls for thousands of Filipino nationals to leave Libya today after a female nurse was abducted and gang-raped.
The Foreign Ministry said all 13,000 Filipinos were to be repatriated as clashes between rival militias threaten to tear Libya apart.
“We reiterate to our remaining nationals to immediately get in touch with the embassy in Tripoli and register for repatriation,” said the ministry.
It confirmed reports that a Filipina nurse had been kidnapped and gang-raped on Wednesday.
The woman was seized outside her home and taken to an unknown location, where she was sexually assaulted by up to six youths.
She was released about two hours later and a Filipino consular team took her to hospital for treatment.
The Philippines first ordered its nationals out of Libya on July 20 when the beheaded remains of a Filipino construction worker were found in Benghazi.
