42 Filipinos still await repatriation from Afghanistan – DFA
42 Filipinos still await repatriation from Afghanistan – DFA
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Cacdac of Filipinos who made it back home.
The Department of Foreign Affairs says it continues to work on the ‘immediate’ extraction of the remaining Flipinos in Afghanistan
At least 42 Filipinos are requesting to be repatriated from conflict-ridden.
Afghanistan, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) reported on Saturday, August 21.
The DFA estimated there were still 49 Filipinos in the country. Meanwhile, 158 have already left or have been evacuated.
In its Saturday update, the DFA said the Philippine embassy in Islamabad, which has jurisdiction over Filipinos in Afghanistan, arranged the evacuation of 30 Filipinos now in Pakistan.
Meanwhile, eight left the Afghan capital Kabul for Dubai, one for Doha, and one for Paris.
Five Filipinos who evacuated to Jakarta, Indonesia, were being assisted for their succeeding flight to Manila.
More Filipinos had reportedly gone to the United Kingdom, though the number and status were under verification by the Philippine embassy in London.
The DFA said that it continued to work on the “immediate extraction” of the remaining Filipinos in Afghanistan, and that all evacuated Filipinos seeking to return to the Philippines would be assisted.
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