Over 230 workers in Libia arrived at a border gate between Libya and Tunisia safely on the evening of March 1, raising the total number of Vietnamese citizens evacuating to Tunisia to 1,500.
Taking in telephone from the Libya-Tunisia border, Nguyen Hoang Luong, a worker in the group, said that the Vietnamese Embassy in Libya had hired buses to take them to the border safely.
However, the workers are still unable to enter Tunisia because of the large numbers of evacuees at the border gate, he said, adding that they have prepared enough food and drinks for the next several days.
Meanwhile, at the Cairo International Airport , hundreds of Vietnamese labourers set off on their way home on March 1. In addition to nearly 320 workers on board a Vietnam Airlines plane, 100 others returned home on commercial flights.
According to Dao Xuan Hao Giang, Second Secretary of the Vietnamese Embassy in Egypt , at present, only 84 workers are staying at the Cairo Airport . Of whom, 62 workers of the Vinamex Company are expected to be brought home on March 2.
Early on March 2, 98 workers of the Vinaconex and Glo-tech Companies arrived in the Cairo Airport from Egypt ’s Salloum border gate.
Two groups of about 190 Vietnamese labourers in Libya are on the way to the Salloum border gate, Giang said.
The Vietnamese Embassy in Egypt is urgently undertaking procedures for Vietnamese citizens to return home early and will quickly bring relief supplies to the Salloum border gate for the evacuees, he added./.
Taking in telephone from the Libya-Tunisia border, Nguyen Hoang Luong, a worker in the group, said that the Vietnamese Embassy in Libya had hired buses to take them to the border safely.
However, the workers are still unable to enter Tunisia because of the large numbers of evacuees at the border gate, he said, adding that they have prepared enough food and drinks for the next several days.
Meanwhile, at the Cairo International Airport , hundreds of Vietnamese labourers set off on their way home on March 1. In addition to nearly 320 workers on board a Vietnam Airlines plane, 100 others returned home on commercial flights.
According to Dao Xuan Hao Giang, Second Secretary of the Vietnamese Embassy in Egypt , at present, only 84 workers are staying at the Cairo Airport . Of whom, 62 workers of the Vinamex Company are expected to be brought home on March 2.
Early on March 2, 98 workers of the Vinaconex and Glo-tech Companies arrived in the Cairo Airport from Egypt ’s Salloum border gate.
Two groups of about 190 Vietnamese labourers in Libya are on the way to the Salloum border gate, Giang said.
The Vietnamese Embassy in Egypt is urgently undertaking procedures for Vietnamese citizens to return home early and will quickly bring relief supplies to the Salloum border gate for the evacuees, he added./.
