More than 50 overseas Filipino workers stranded in Manus, Papua New Guinea will soon be sent home on a special flight from that countryâs capital.

Alfred Salmos, the overseas Filipino worker who survived burns in a freak accident in Saudi Arabia two years ago finally arrived home Tuesday.

The government’s evacuation program for overseas Filipino workers in Syria remains in “full swing,” with the repatriation on Thursday of another 26 OFWs from the strife-torn Middle East country, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs.