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Indian resident Simro (C) reacts to the confirmation of the death of her son Balwant Rai in Khan Ke village some 20kms from Jalandhar on March 20, 2018. The bodies of 39 Indian construction workers kidnapped in Iraq in 2014 by the Islamic State group have been found in a mass grave, India's foreign minister said March 20. Sushma Swaraj told the upper house of parliament the workers had been murdered by IS. Their bodies had been found in the grave in the village of Badush northwest of the city of Mosul and taken to a local organisation for DNA testing. / AFP PHOTO / SHAMMI MEHRA
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Indian resident Gyan Kaur (C) reacts to the confirmation of the death of her husband Balwant Rai in Khan Ke village some 20kms from Jalandhar on March 20, 2018. The bodies of 39 Indian construction workers kidnapped in Iraq in 2014 by the Islamic State group have been found in a mass grave, India's foreign minister said March 20. Sushma Swaraj told the upper house of parliament the workers had been murdered by IS. Their bodies had been found in the grave in the village of Badush northwest of the city of Mosul and taken to a local organisation for DNA testing. / AFP PHOTO / SHAMMI MEHRA
Published at : 20 Mar 2018 09:05 PM (IST)
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