The President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte said on Friday he might send the navy’s most modern frigate to waters off Libya’s coast in a bid to rescue three Filipinos and a South Korean kidnapped last month from a Man-Made River site in the country’s southern region.
“If they start hurting those three Filipinos, I will bring a frigate there, I am not kidding,” Duterte said in a speech.
Video footage appeared on social media this week of the four men confirming their names and nationalities and appealing to their presidents for help.
South Korea has redirected a vessel taking part in anti-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden to help in the release of the four men.
