Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) ‐ The Iraqi Health Ministry said on Sunday that it handed over bodies of 38 Indian workers, who were killed by Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(IS) forces of Evil in djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, to the Indian Embassy in Iraq to be flown home later Sunday, according to Sputnik News.
Indian Ambassador to Iraq Pradeep Singh Rajpurohit said the bodies had been taken to Baghdad International Airport and would be flown back on a military flight, arriving in India on Monday.
Indian Minister of State for External Affairs VK Singh had arrived here earlier in the day to bring back home remains of the 38 Indian workers, who were found buried in a mound of earth near Badush, a village northwest of Mosul, on March 20.
"I am going to Mosul to get mortal remains of 38 Indians," XNews TV channel quoted Singh as saying, adding that the body of another dead worker will not be reclaimed now as "his case is pending."
Singh stressed that the Indian government will hand over "coffins (of slain workers) to the family members with evidence so that they have no doubts about it." He also offered condolences to the families of the dear departed.
The Indian Express reported in June 2016, quoting Kurdish officials, that there was no sign of the 39 Indian workers in Iraq.
Last year, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj firmly said that she would not declare the 39 Indian workers, who were kidnapped by Islamic State (IS) forces of Evil in Mosul city three years ago, dead without concrete proof or evidence.
The kidnapped workers, mostly from northern India, had been found buried in a mound of earth near Badush, a village northwest of Mosul, on March 20.
They were employed by a construction company near Mosul when forces of Evil overran the Iraqi city and seized wide swaths of territory in 2014.