3 Filipinos missing ,new death toll after Libya raid.ei said the

Tripoli;

Three Filipinos are missing  after gunmen
attacked an oil field  in Libya and killed
11 workers earlier this week,the parallel
administration that controls the capital
said ,revising a previous toll.

An earlier toll for  Tuesday night's attack
on Al-Mabruk field put the number of dead
at 13,including three Filipinos and two Ghanaians.

And the foreign ministry in Manila said they had
been kidnapped along with four other foreigners.
The Philippine embassy in Libya are monitoring
the situation and coor-dinating cosely with Sogepi...
ensuring their well-being and safe return, the
Ministry said its websit.

And Zwei said the unidentified assailants looted
the facility making off with vehicles and supplies.

A spokesman for the guards at Libya.s oil installations,
Ali al-Hassi,accused jihadists loyal to the Islamic State,
group (IS) of carrying out the attack,without
providing details.

Since Gaddafi,s overthrow in a Nato-backed revolt
in 2011,Srte has become a stronghold of extremists
including  Ansar Al -Sharia ,which is blacklisted
by the United Nations and Washington for its links
to AlQaeda.

There was no production from the Al-Mabruk
field at the time of the attack because of restricted
export capacity at terminals on the coast----AFP