MANILA, Nov. 3 (Xinhuanet) -- The Philippine government Wednesday warned that overseas Filipinos should be well-prepared for danger after two Filipinos were kidnapped in Afghanistan and Iraq, respectively.

    Presidential spokesman Ignacio Bunye said that Filipinos who live and work at the edge of conflict in parts of the world are exposed to grave risks.

    "We must steel ourselves for dangerous times," Bunye warned.

    A Filipino accountant, identified as Roberto Tarongoy, has been confirmed Tuesday kidnapped in Baghdad, where he worked for a Saudi Arabian company supplying catering services to US camps.

    Tarongoy's abduction came amid frantic efforts by Manila to winthe release of Filipino UN worker Angelito Nayan, 34, who was kidnapped by Taliban militants in Kabul along with his two female fellows last week.

    Bunye said that the government's crisis team had been "in place to verify information, take care of the family, put officials in the ground, establish back channels and muster support from all sectors, informing our political leaders."

    "We will see this crisis through systematically and with sensitivity," he said.

    Beside abduction, a 46-year-old overseas Filipino worker, Leonila Villare, was wounded during a suicide bomb attack at a market in Tel Aviv, Israel on Monday.

    However, the Philippine embassy in Israel said Tuesday that thevictim has been already out of danger and remains stable.

    In July, Iraqi militants abducted Filipino truck driver Angelo de la Cruz but freed him after the Philippine government agreed totheir demand to withdraw its small humanitarian contingent in Iraq.

    The Philippine government said that it would keep the ban on the deployment of overseas workers in Iraq for the sake of security until the Iraqi election is over in January.

    However, despite the ban, thousands of Filipino workers, lured by higher pay jobs, have managed to slip into Iraq, usually by crossing the border from other Middle East countries. Enditem