India says 39 workers abducted in Iraq in 2014 are confirmed dead
New Delhi, (MILLAT ONLINE):The bodies of 39 Indian construction workers kidnapped in Iraq in 2014 by the Islamic State group
have been found in a mass grave, India’s foreign minister said Tuesday.
Sushma Swaraj told the upper house of parliament the workers had been murdered
by IS.
Their bodies had been found in the grave in the village of Badush northwest of the city
of Mosul and taken to a local organisation for DNA testing.
“Yesterday they told us that 38 samples had matched. The 39th had a partial match as
he didn’t have any immediate family,” said Swaraj.
The 39 were abducted in June 2014 when IS overran large swathes of territory
in Iraq and captured Mosul.