After informing the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha about the unfortunate death of 39 Indians in Mosul, Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj held a press conference to brief the nation about the unfortunate deaths.

Sushma Swaraj reiterated that the announcement was not made earlier because the people were missing and any evidence about them being dead or alive was not found until then.

“We had been saying that we neither have the evidence of them being alive nor the evidence of them being dead. We maintained this in 2014 and 2017. We did not keep anyone in dark. We gave no false hopes to anyone,” said the Sushma Swaraj.

She targeted the Congress over the ruckus created in the Lok Sabha while she informed the house about these deaths. She accused the party of playing politics over the deaths.

“Today Congress indulged in a very low level of politics, probably Congress president thought how did no uproar happened in Rajya Sabha and decided to ask Scindia ji to lead protests in Lok Sabha. Playing politics on deaths,” said Swaraj.

When asked about the time of the death of these people she said it could be any time but the search for bodies could only begin when Mosul was liberated.

The external affairs minister informed the press about the native place of the deceased.

“Out of the deceased, 27 people were from Punjab, 6 from Bihar, 4 from Himachal Pradesh and 2 from West Bengal. The identity of one of them is yet to be verified,” said Swaraj.

The person whose identity is yet unverified hails from Bihar.