TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday confirmed that 39 Indians, who went missing in Mosul in Iraq in the year 2014 have been killed. Speaking in the Rajya Sabha, Swaraj said that the dreaded terror outfit Islamic State had killed all the Indian nationals.
In July last year, Swaraj had firmly said in the Parliament that she would not declare the 39 Indians dead without concrete proof or evidence. “It is a sin to declare a person dead without concrete evidence. I will not do this sin,” Swaraj said in a statement in the Lok Sabha in 2017.
However, confirming the sad news on Tuesday, she said, “Deep penetration radar confirmed that all Indians were dead after all bodies were exhumed. Mortal remains were sent to Baghdad. For verification of bodies DNA samples of relatives were sent there, 4 state govts, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, West Bengal & Bihar were involved.”
