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Mamata Banerjee expresses shock over killing of Indians in Iraq's Mosul, says 'words not enough to console 39 grieving families'

"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", she said in a tweet.

Reported by: PTI Kolkata Updated on: March 20, 2018 13:15 IST
File photo of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
File photo of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday expressed shock over the killing of 39 Indians in Iraq. 

"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", she said in a tweet. 

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today told the Rajya Sabha that 39 Indians, who were abducted by the terror outfit ISIS in Iraq nearly three years back, were killed and their bodies have been recovered. 

As many as 40 Indians were originally abducted by the ISIS in June 2015 from Mosul in Iraq but one of them escaped by posing as a Muslim from Bangladesh, Swaraj said in a suo motu statement in Rajya Sabha. 

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