The Minister of State for External Affairs, General V K Singh (retd) will leave for Mosul to bring back the mortal remains of the 39 Indians who were killed while working there.
The minister is expected to bring back the bodies by late Monday, following which he will travel to across the country to hand over the mortal remains to their respective families.
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“I am leaving for Iraq, will be getting back mortal remains of the 38 Indians, we won’t get one man’s remains as his case is pending. Will handover coffins to family members with evidence so that they have no doubts. Tomorrow I will return to Amritsar and then will go to Kolkata and then Patna. The families of the victims have been informed about it,” Singh said.
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On March 20, External Affairs Minister (EAM) Sushma Swaraj informed Rajya Sabha members in the Parliament that the 39 Indian nationals, who went missing in Mosul in 2014, were killed by the terror outfit Islamic State (IS).
The 39 persons, most of whom hailed from Punjab, were working on projects near Mosul when they were kidnapped. They were later killed by the terrorists and buried in a mass grave in the war-torn country.
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