FOREIGN Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano has ordered the Philippine Embassy in Tripoli to exert all efforts to secure the release of 20 Filipino seafarers detained by Libyan authorities on suspicion that they were transporting smuggled oil.

A Libyan Coast Guard patrol seized on Sunday the Liberian-flagged tanker Levant on suspicion that it was smuggling oil. The tanker, which was carrying six million liters of oil, was now being towed to Tripoli.

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