VK Singh to visit Iraq on April 1 to bring back bodies
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, March 30
Minister of State (MoS) for External Affairs (MEA) VK Singh will visit Iraq on April 1 to bring back bodies of the 39 Indians killed in Mosul, sources in the ministry said on Friday.
Singh will fly the bodies back in a special aircraft of the Indian Air Force—first to Amritsar on April 2, and later to Patna and Kolkata.
On March 20, External Affairs Minister (EAM) Sushma Swaraj informed the Rajya Sabha members in the Parliament that 39 Indians who went missing in Mosul in 2014 were killed by the Islamic State (IS) militants.
The Indians—most of who were from Punjab—were working on projects near Mosul when they were kidnapped. With ANI
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