Three Filipina flight attendants of Saudia were the first Filipino workers to be evacuated from strife-torn Sudan, the Department of Foreign Affairs said (DFA).
THREE Filipina flight attendants of Saudia were the first Filipino workers to be evacuated from strife-torn Sudan, the Department of ForeignThis came as the Philippine Embassy in Cairo has dispatched a bus going to the border with Sudan to fetch Filipinos fleeing from the civil war in the African state.
The Filipinas stayed at the Saudi Embassy in Khartoum for four days. “They witnessed the constant bombings in Khartoum,” the consul general said. From the port, the 157 evacuees, including the three Filipinas, boarded four Saudi naval boats and exited through the Red Sea. Aside from Saudis and Filipinos, the other stranded foreigners who were also evacuated were from Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Tunisia, Pakistan, India, Bulgaria, Bangladesh, Canada and Burkina Faso.
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