The four had been working for the Gaddafi in Tripoli nieces before the rebel advance sent the warlord and his family flee the Libyan capital. In recent days one of the four made a phone call from his sister in the Philippines for help, but little information about its location was given, the spokesman said the vice president is Jejomar Binay.

"We do not know where they are. All they said is they are always crying," said spokesman Joey Salgado, told AFP.

Binay, who also serves as special advisor to overseas workers in the country, has asked the foreign department to help find the four, but no progress because of the chaos in Libya, according to Salgado.

In March, the Philippines, said he received reports that four Filipino maids working for the Gaddafi family were asking to be allowed to go home but the employer refused.

The four were initially employed in a family of Gaddafi in Tripoli home, but were moved to Sirte, the hometown of deposed dictator, in mid-March, the foreign department said at the time.

However, Salgado said he did not know if the four maids were currently missing the same reports, caught in March.

The Department of Foreign Affairs said he was trying to find the maids, but declined further comment.

Until last week, about 1,600 Filipinos still believe that in Libya, many nurses who treat victims of the uprising of months against Gaddafi.

About nine million Filipinos working all over the world, make more money in a wide range of skilled and unskilled sectors abroad than they could in their impoverished homeland.
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