article_snippet: (CNN)Nine foreign workers are believed to be in the hands of ISIS-affiliated militants after an attack on a Libyan oil field, according to officials.
article_snippet: The kidnapped foreigners include four Filipinos, an Austrian, a Czech and a Ghanaian, according to the Philippine foreign ministry.
article_snippet: The nationality of the ninth worker was unclear.
article_snippet: the Philippine foreign ministry said Monday that the Philippine foreign ministry Tripoli embassy had "stepped up coordination" with the Austrian company and Libyan authorities "to locate the abducted Filipinos and ensure the abducted Filipinos safe and immediate release.
article_snippet: Martin Weiss, a spokesman for the Philippine foreign ministry tweeted Monday that "credible sources" had confirmed that the Austrian citizen and other international workers were in the hands of the extremist group ISIS "terrorists.
article_snippet: the Philippine foreign ministry said 52 other Filipinos are employed by VAOS but were relocated out of Al-Ghani "much earlier" and are now in Tripoli.
article_snippet: Three other Filipinos have been missing in Libya since Three other Filipinos were seized at the Mabruk oil field in February, the Philippine foreign ministry said.
article_snippet: foreign ministry spokesman Charles Jose said Philippine authorities were unsure at this point whether the kidnappers were ISIS members.
article_snippet: CNN's Jomana Karadsheh and Marilia Brocchetto, and journalists Ayman Kekly and Arlene Samson-Espiritu, contributed to this report.
highlights_snippet: The abducted workers were seized in an attack on an oil field last week .
  
highlights_snippet: The abducted workers are from the Philippines, Bangladesh, Austria, the Czech Republic and Ghana .
  