Why do these people need to flee from their employers? Are they slaves?

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Two Filipinos die fleeing employers in Lebanon

MANILA, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Two Philippine workers fell from high-rise apartments in the Lebanese capital and were killed, while trying to flee from their employers in the war-torn nation, Manila's ambassador to Beirut said on Thursday.

Manila has ordered the evacuation of more than 30,000 Filipinos in Lebanon as violence escalated between Israeil forces and Hizbollah militants.

Philippine ambassador to Lebanon Al Francis Bichara said the two women, both in their early 20s, fell from a four-storey apartment building in Beirut while attempting to escape from their employers.

Bichara said there had been other cases of Filipino workers jumping out of their employers' apartment to escape and return to the Philippines after President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ordered the mass evacuation due to the worsening security situation.