OFWs hopeful US clarification on Iran missile strike in Erbil will mean no deployment ban

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Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu, who was designated by President Duterte as special envoy to the Middle East, said overseas Filipino workers would be evacuated either by land or air to Jordan and Dubai where conditions are more stable.

The STAR / Rudy Santos, File

 

MANILA, Philippines — The clarification that Iran’s missile attack on Iraq over the weekend was not directed at a US-owned property helped keep the fears of overseas Filipino workers on the reimplementation of a deployment ban at bay, a community representative said.

 

Iran launched early on Sunday a dozen ballistic missiles in Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region. There were no casualties reported.

 

"Kababalik lang po ng Balik-Manggagawa program dito sa Erbil… malaking tulong po ito kasi yung mga kababayan natin dito sa Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq or sa buong Iraq ay nababahala naman po baka daw po mabalik yung ban o yung Alert Level 4,” Filipino Community Organization in Erbil Media Information Officer Annie Saucelo Astillo told ABS-CBN's "TeleRadyo" on Monday.

 

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