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Sunday, 27 February 2011

The Foreign Office has issued advice on possible options for leaving:


16:23 |

The Royal Navy frigate HMS Cumberland has arrived in Benghazi and is now expected to depart at dusk on Sunday.
Planes carrying rescued oil workers are expected to leave Malta at 1400 and 1700 GMT on Sunday, bound for Gatwick
The Hungarian government has organised a charter flight out of Tripoli on Sunday and is willing to accept British nationals
The Romanian government is also sending a plane to Tripoli on Sunday, with availability for approximately 40 EU citizens. It is expected to arrive at 1400 and leave at 1900 (Libyan time)
Where it is safe to do so, UK citizens can consider leaving Libya by road via the Tunisian border, which is open
Further rescue missions are planned to reach the British nationals still stranded
More details are on the Foreign Office website and all options to depart Libya will also be updated on the Foreign Office on Twitter.
The Foreign Office has revised upwards its original estimate of the number of British oil workers still in the desert."


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