I believe these 46 nurses have been returned to India after a ransom for them was paid to ISIL. However, many of you might not have heard about this story or of many different foreign workers caught in this mess. Some likely survived when ransoms were paid for them to return home.
46 Indian nurses 'abducted' by ISIS in Saddam's hometown
RT (blog)-46 Indian nurses 'abducted' by ISIS in Saddam's hometown ... Baghdad to the Mediterranean, had been pressuring the foreigners to leave.46 Indian nurses 'abducted' by ISIS in Saddam’s hometown
Forty-six Indian nurses working in Iraq have been forcibly removed from their hospital in the ISIS-occupied city of Tikrit, according to India's Foreign Ministry. Militants previously said the medical staff must leave the country.Published time: July 03, 2014 14:56
"In zones of conflict there is no free will, Foreign Ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin told reporters in Delhi. “This is a situation where lives are at stake. They did not go of their own free will, but they are unharmed. Our mission advised them to proceed where they are proceeding.”
READ MORE: Live updates on ISIS offensive in Iraq
The Indian staff were reportedly forced to board two buses, which then drove off to an undisclosed location. Akbaruddin said that five of the nurses received minor injuries from cut glass, though he denied they had been caught in an explosion.
The nurses had been stranded in the basement of Tikrit Teaching Hospital for nearly a fortnight after radical Islamists ISIS plowed through the country, and captured the hometown of former leader Saddam Hussein. The fighters, who aim to establish a Sunni caliphate that stretches from Baghdad to the Mediterranean, had been pressuring the foreigners to leave.
READ MORE: ISIS recruit, kidnap children as young as 10
"We were politely resisting the militants' moves,” Sona Joseph, one of the nurses, told The Hindustan Times on Thursday. “But now the tone of the bearded boys is different. We have no other option but to obey them."
The nurses are among about 10,000 Indian citizens working in Iraq, and they were receiving salaries of $750-$1,000 a month. The Indian government is now helping to evacuate other expatriates near danger zones throughout the country.end quote from:
Sunday, July 6, 2014
46 nurses that were kidnapped in Mosul were returned to India
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment