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Bodies of 38 Indians killed in Iraq to be brought back to India today

| @indiablooms | Apr 02, 2018, at 02:57 pm

New Delhi, Apr 2 (IBNS): Bodies of 38 Indians killed in Iraq will be flown back to India on Monday.

Minister of State for External Affairs V. K. Singh left for Mosul on Sunday to bring back the bodies to India.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj informed the Parliament last month that   39 Indians, who had gone missing in Iraqi town Mosul in 2014, have been killed in captivity of ISIS terrorists.

She informed that  27 of the people were from Punjab, four  from Himachal Pradesh, six from Bihar and two  from West Bengal.

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