The bodies of 39 Indian construction workers kidnapped in Iraq in 2014 by the "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" (ISIS) have been found in a mass grave, AFP reported Tuesday (March 20th).
India's foreign minister Sushma Swaraj told the upper house of parliament the workers had been murdered by ISIS.
Their bodies had been found in the grave in the village of Badush north-west of the city of Mosul and taken to a local organisation for DNA testing.
"Yesterday they told us that 38 samples had matched. The 39th had a partial match as he did not have any immediate family," said Swaraj.
The workers were abducted in June 2014 when ISIS elements overran large swathes of territory in Iraq and captured Mosul.
