Sachi Ghatna: Story of 39 Indians killed by ISIS in Mosul

Sachi Ghatna: Story of 39 Indians killed by ISIS in Mosul

Thirty-nine Indians kidnapped by the Islamic State in Iraq's Mosul in 2014 are dead, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj told the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.

She told the House that their bodies were spotted using deep penetration radar. The bodies were exhumed from mass graves in Iraq's Badush and DNA testing led to the identification of 38 as being of missing Indians, she said.

ABP News had in November 2014 reported about these killing on account of two Bangladeshi workers whom the channel spoke to in Kurdistan’s capital Erbil four years ago.

The Islamic State seized control of Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, in June 2014 after it defeated the Iraqi Army, resulting in killings of thousands of civilians. However, Iraqi forces initiated an offensive in October 2016, to retake the city and succeeded in their efforts in July 2017. 

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