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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
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
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
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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
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
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Indian resident Amandeep Kaur holds her daughter Sanjna (R) and son Harsh as they react to the confirmation of the death of her husband Kulwinder Singh 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
Indian resident Amandeep Kaur holds her daughter Sanjna (R) and son Harsh as they react to the confirmation of the death of her husband Kulwinder Singh 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 Shimbo holds her granddaughter Sanjna as they react to the confirmation of the death of her son Kulwinder Singh 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
Indian resident Shimbo holds her granddaughter Sanjna as they react to the confirmation of the death of her son Kulwinder Singh 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 Ranjit Kaur holds photographs of her son Jatinder Singh after hearing confirmation of his death in the village of Sialka some 35 kms from Amritsar 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 / NARINDER NANU
Indian resident Ranjit Kaur holds photographs of her son Jatinder Singh after hearing confirmation of his death in the village of Sialka some 35 kms from Amritsar 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 / NARINDER NANU
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New Delhi: The official news today that 39 Indian kidnapped by ISIS in Iraq's Mosul in 2014 were murdered, has given a shock to the family members of the deceased.

Actually, 40 Indian were kidnapped but one of them, Harjit Masih, escaped by posing as a Muslim from Bangladesh.

The confirmation my Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj today in Rajya Sabha has come as a jolt for the relatives and are sorrowful.

Here are some pictures which will melt your heart: (Image: AFP)
New Delhi: The official news today that 39 Indian kidnapped by ISIS in Iraq's Mosul in 2014 were murdered, has given a shock to the family members of the deceased. Actually, 40 Indian were kidnapped but one of them, Harjit Masih, escaped by posing as a Muslim from Bangladesh. The confirmation my Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj today in Rajya Sabha has come as a jolt for the relatives and are sorrowful. Here are some pictures which will melt your heart: (Image: AFP)
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