Bodies of 38 Indians killed in Iraq arrive in India
New Delhi, Apr 2 (IBNS): The mortal remains of 38 Indians, killed in Iraq, arrived at the Amritsar International Airport on Monday.
The mortal remains were brought to India in a special aircraft.
Minister of State for External Affairs V K Singh went to Mosul to bring back the bodies of 38 Indians.
Meanwhile speaking to reporters, Singh said there was no record in any embassy that the Indians were killed by the Islamic State in Iraq.
Singh said had the government had any information about these people being in danger, it could have tried to save them.
Punjab Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday announced ex-gratia of Rs 500,000 for the next kin of the 27 Indians belonging from Punjab.
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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