Vietnamese workers in Libya airlifted via Egypt

As many as 682 Vietnamese guest workers will be evacuated from Libya via Egypt.
As many as 682 Vietnamese guest workers will be evacuated from Libya under a plan coordinated by their employer Huyndai Amco (the Republic of Korea), Vietnam Airlines and the Vietnamese Embassy in Egypt.

The employees are working at a housing project in the eastern city of Al-Beida – around 200km from the strife-torn Benghazi in Libya .

As planned, Libyan Airlines will conduct eight flights on August 9-11 to carry the guest workers to Cairo, with 184 expected on board of a Vietnam Airlines fight to return home on August 9 night.

The national flag carrier will conduct two more fights from Cairo to Hanoi on August 10-11.

Meanwhile, twenty-five Vietnamese workers, who had been evacuated from Libya on August 7, are scheduled to arrive in Tan Son Nhat international airport in Ho Chi Minh City on August 9.

A group of 68 others at the hot spot Tripoli will return Vietnam via Tunisia on August 14-15 instead of August 10 as scheduled.

Foreman Bui Sy Phong at the Al-Khalij power plant, the northern coastal province of Sirte , revealed that more than 130 Vietnamese along with their Korean and Philippine worker fellows here will be taken to Istanbul , Turkey , by aircraft on August 9 and 10, from where they will fly back to their home country.

According to the Vietnamese Embassy in Libya , 1,050 out of the 1,550 Vietnamese workers are scheduled to move away from the country in the next several days.

As of August 8, 240 Vietnamese workers were brought home.-VNA

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