New Delhi, July 7 – A day after 46 Indian nurses working in Iraq reached home, about 1,600 Indian nationals in the strife-torn country are being provided tickets by the Indian government for their return.
According to external affairs ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin, two other special flights will be operated to New Delhi from Najaf and Basra in the next 36 to 48 hours with approximately 200 Indians.
Akbaruddin said 486 telephone calls were received at control rooms from stranded Indians in Iraq and all were being responded to.”We are responding to each one of them,” he said.
Meanwhile, the fate of 39 Indian workers held hostage in ISIL (Islamic State of Syria and Levant)-dominated Mosul hangs in balance, with the government having opened the diplomatic and other channels.
-INDIA TODAY
