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3 "missing" Filipino in Iraq found: Report
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-07-10 15:35 The three overseas Filipino
workers earlier reported missing in Iraq have been found, a Filipino television
reported Saturday.
Al Jeri trucking company, a major Saudi Arabia-based trucking companies
delivering fuel for the reconstruction of Iraq, has confirmed the status of the
three Filipino truck drivers, the ABS-CBN new channel reported, quoting Rasheed
Fabricante, a Philippineembassy official in Saudi Arabia, as saying.
The three Filipinos are among some 40 truck drivers reportedly stranded in
Baghdad due to the unavailability of police escorts and the closure of the Iraqi
border with Saudi Arabia.
They were reported missing on Thursday, days after Iraqi gunmentook hostage
and threatened to kill another Filipino, Angelo de laCruz, if the Philippine
government fails to pull out its 51-man contingent of soldiers, police and
health workers in Iraq.
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