Sushma Swaraj confirm killing of 39 Indian labourers in Iran
Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj has confirmed the killing of 39 Indian labourers, mostly from Punjab, at the hands of Daesh (IS) who were stranded in Mosul (Iraq) since 2014.
Giving a statement in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, Swaraj said that the bodies of the deceased were exhumed and DNA samples sent for forensic test. The relatives of the 39 Indians were made to undergo DNA test last year. The Iraqi authorities have confirmed the identity of the dead bodies. They were kidnapped by ISIS in Mosul in 2014.
Among the dead, 31 belong to Punjab, 4 to Himachal Pradesh while the remaining four belong to Bihar and West Bengal. Government will send a special aircraft for bringing the dead bodies with proper documentation along with their identities.Until October last year, both India and Iraq could not confirm the deaths of the 39 abducted Indian labourers. Sushma Swaraj had been reiterating that she cannot declare the abducted people dead until confirmation from the concerned authorities in Iraq. She said, “It is a sin to declare a person dead without concrete evidence. I will not do this sin.”
Giving a statement in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, Swaraj said that the bodies of the deceased were exhumed and DNA samples sent for forensic test. The relatives of the 39 Indians were made to undergo DNA test last year. The Iraqi authorities have confirmed the identity of the dead bodies. They were kidnapped by ISIS in Mosul in 2014.
Among the dead, 31 belong to Punjab, 4 to Himachal Pradesh while the remaining four belong to Bihar and West Bengal. Government will send a special aircraft for bringing the dead bodies with proper documentation along with their identities.Until October last year, both India and Iraq could not confirm the deaths of the 39 abducted Indian labourers. Sushma Swaraj had been reiterating that she cannot declare the abducted people dead until confirmation from the concerned authorities in Iraq. She said, “It is a sin to declare a person dead without concrete evidence. I will not do this sin.”
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