Mosul death Row of 39 Indians: MoS V .K. Singh will visit Iraq on April 1 to obtain mortal remains
Mosul death Row of 39 Indians: MoS V .K. Singh will visit Iraq on April 1 to obtain mortal remains
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New Delhi [India], Mar 30 (NT): Minister of State (MoS) of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) General V .K. Singh will pay a visit to Iraq on April 1 to bring back the mortal remains of the 39 Indians killed in Mosul.

On March 20, External Affairs Minister (EAM) Sushma Swaraj informed the Rajya Sabha members in the Parliament that the 39 Indian nationals, who went missing in Mosul in 2014, were killed by the terror group Islamic State (IS).

As many as 40 Indians were abducted by ISIS in June 2015 from Mosul in Iraq but one of them runaway by posing as a Muslim from Bangladesh, Swaraj had said in Rajya Sabha. 

Soon after this, General Singh had stated that it would take around eight to ten days to get hold of the mortal remains of its nationals as legal procedures were underway.

The 39 persons, most of whom hailed from Punjab, were working on projects near Mosul when they were kidnapped.

Congress has been targeting the government over the handling of the issue of death of Indians in Iraq by conducting the survey on Swaraj .

 

 

 

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