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Diplomat to oversee mass Filipino evacuation from Libya

A senior diplomat from the Philippines is flying to north Africa to supervise the evacuation of 13,000 citizens from Libya after a Filipino worker there was beheaded and a nurse gang-raped.

Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario is going to Tunisia to arrange the exodus of the workers and their dependents.

They are mostly based in the cities of Benghazi, Misrata and Tripoli.

Libya has been gripped by violence involving militias that spearheaded the 2011 uprising against Muammar Gaddafi…

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