PR-046- 2015
5 April 2015

Philippine Government Evacuates
99 Filipinos from Yemen

(Above: Consul General Leo Ausan of the Philippine Consulate in Jeddah briefing the newly-arrived Filipino evacuees at the Saudi Immigration Office in Tuwal, Jizan Province)

(Jizan, 5 April 2015) – The Crisis Management Team (CMT), led by Philippine Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Ezzedin Tago, along with officials and personnel from the Philippine Embassy in Riyadh and the Philippine Consulate in Jeddah, successfully evacuated 99 Filipino nationals. Of these, 54 were males, 43 female and two infants.

            The group travelled on a convoy of two buses. They left the western Yemeni city of Hodeidah at 07.00 hrs this morning and arrived at the Tuwal border crossing of Saudi Arabia at 11.00 hrs also this morning. The journey was generally safe even though the group had to pass through several checkpoints along the 215 kilometer route.

Embassy and consulate personnel are now assisting the evacuees in Jizan, providing them food and accommodations, as well as arranging their onward air travel to the Philippines.

The CMT will again undertake another land evacuation tomorrow, 6 April 2015, from the capital city of Sana’a via Hodeidah.

Filipinos who are still undecided about leaving the country are strongly urged to do so and join the land evacuation tomorrow by contacting CMT personnel in Movenpick Hotel Sana’a thru the following:

+967 73 0194 165

+967 73 742 6292

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