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India says it has confirmed 39 Indians missing in Iraq since 2014 are dead

India said on Tuesday that 39 Indians, who were believed to have been kidnapped by Islamic State militants in Iraq in 2014, had been confirmed dead after their bodies were found.

 

The bodies were recovered from a mass grave and DNA tests had confirmed them to be those of the construction workers who went missing from the Iraqi city of Mosul, Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj told parliament.

 

"With full proof I can say these 39 are dead," the minister said. The government had for years said it would only declare the men dead once it had full evidence.

 

Swaraj said the authorities in Baghdad helped identify a mass grave and with the help of deep penetration radar, the buried bodies were discovered and exhumed.

 


פרסום ראשון: 03.20.18, 09:20