Mamata Banerjee expresses sadness over killing of 39 Indians in Mosul
Kolkata, Mar 20 (IBNS): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday condemned the killing of 39 Indians in Mosul.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday said that the 39 Indians, missing in Iraq have been killed.
Media reports quoted Swaraj as having confirmed this while speaking in the Rajya Sabha.
Expressing her sadness over the death of 39 Indians, Mamata Banerjee tweeted: "Deeply saddened and shocked with the very sad news from #Mosul. Words are not enough to console the 39 grieving families. Our thoughts and prayers with them."
Deeply saddened and shocked with the very sad news from #Mosul. Words are not enough to console the 39 grieving families. Our thoughts and prayers with them
— Mamata Banerjee (@MamataOfficial) March 20, 2018
39 Indians were kidnapped near Iraq’s Mosul by the Islamic State in June 2014
Misinster of State V K Singh will go to Iraq to bring back the bodies of the victims.
In July last year, Swaraj had told Parliament that there was no evidence that the missing people had been killed by the Islamic terrorists and that they can't be declared as dead.
In July 2017, Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari had said that there was no “substantial evidence” on whether the Indians were alive or dead and confirmed that their last known location, the prison at Badush, has been destroyed by the Islamic State.
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