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39 Indians abducted in Iraq in 2014 confirmed dead : Sushma Swaraj

| @indiablooms | Mar 20, 2018, at 05:45 pm

New Delhi, Mar 20 (IBNS) : External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday said that the 39  Indians, missing in Iraq have been killed.

Media reports quoted Swaraj as having confirmed this while  speaking in the Rajya Sabha.

The 39 Indians were kidnapped near Iraq’s Mosul by the Islamic State in June 2014

Misinster of State V K Singh will go to Iraq to bring back the bodies of  the  victims. 

In July last year, Swaraj had told Parliament that there was no evidence that the missing people had been  killed by the Islamic terrorists and that they can't be declared as dead.

In July 2017, Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari had said that there was no “substantial evidence” on whether the Indians were alive or dead and confirmed that their last known location, the prison at Badush, has been destroyed by the Islamic State.

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