Missing Indians in Erbil |
India`s Minister of State for External Affairs V K Singh is traveling to Erbil, Iraq, to locate and bring back the 39 Indians reportedly kept in Mosul as hostages of the ISIS. As soon as the announcement of liberation of Mosul was made by the Prime Minister of Iraq Haider al-Abadi, india activated various channels for locating those Indians. Iraqi authorities have conveyed that all cooperation would be extended in this regard and instructions have been issued by them to all relevant Iraqi agencies for the same. The 39 Indians, mostly from Punjab, who had been held hostage by the fighters aligned to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in the Iraqi city of Mosul since 2014. The Ministry of External Affairs had ealier said that 39 Indians taken hostage in the Iraqi city of Mosul are in the captivity of fighters aligned to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, are alive.
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