AT least 409 Filipinos from conflict-torn Sudan have been safely evacuated and are currently in "safe zones" amid the 72-hour ceasefire there, Malacañang said Thursday.

In a statement, Presidential Communications Secretary Cheloy Garafil said that of the 409 Filipinos, some 335 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and family members left Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, on Wednesday, April 26, for Egypt via Wadi Halfa Highway.

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