Oil worker may have to travel 100 miles across Libya for Royal Navy rescue

HULL: Oil worker Neil Kemp may be forced to travel 100 miles across dangerous country to escape crisis-hit Libya.

HMS Cumberland was expected to return to Benghazi at some point this weekend.

Yesterday, the frigate docked in Malta after collecting 207 passengers, including 68 Britons, from the Libyan port.

Today, the ship was expected to begin a second trip to Benghazi to collect more passengers.

Mr Kemp, 48, of Sutton, is holed up with a handful of Britons on an oil terminal near the town of Ajadabia, in the north-east of the country.

He decided against travelling the 100 miles to Benghazi earlier this week, due to the worsening violence in the area.

So far, requests by Mr Kemp for the ship to pick up workers nearer their terminal have fallen on deaf ears.

Last night, Mr Kemp refused to rule out hiring a car or van to drive to Benghazi, although he is still waiting for an answer from the Foreign Office in London.

Mr Kemp said: "We are still on the terminal. About 40 people left today for Benghazi but we stayed. There is now myself and three other Brits.

"We are hoping to get HMS Cumberland back again on Sunday.

"If we have to travel to Benghazi, so be it."

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