Gopal Baglay, spokesperson for the Ministry of External Affairs, addresses a weekly news briefing on Friday. ANI photo
KV Prasad
Tribune New Service
New Delhi, June 16
The Ministry of External Affairs said on Friday that 39 people from Punjab currently trapped in Iraq’s war-torn Mosul were alive.
MEA spokesman Gopal Baglay said India had no information that stated otherwise.
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"We are in touch with all countries that can help us,” he said, although he was unwilling to say more, saying only that it was sensitive.
A US-backed offensive to recapture the city that fell to the hands of the Islamic State two years ago entered its ninth month on Friday.
The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said over 100,000 civilians remain trapped behind Islamic State lines in Mosul. —With agencies
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