Four Filipino workers were abducted by unidentified gunmen in an oil field in Central Libya on March 6, bringing the total number of kidnapped Filipinos there to seven, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) confirmed on Monday.

The four Filipinos were among the foreigners--two Bangladeshi, one Ghanan, one Czech and one Austrian--abducted from the Al Ghani oil field after it was attacked by “heavily armed men” on March 6, Foreign Affairs spokesman Charles Jose said in a news briefing.

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