39 Indians slaughtered by ISIS [Badoosh, Iraq]

[Reported as seen]

39 Indians were killed by ISIS in Badoosh, Iraq. Last month, the External Affairs Minister, Sushma Swaraj told Parliament that 40 Indians were abducted by ISIS from Mosul in Iraq in June 2014, but one of them escaped by posing as a Muslim from Bangladesh. The remaining 39 were taken to Badoosh and killed, she had said. Of the 39 murdered, 27 were from Punjab, 6 from Bihar, 4 from Himachal Pradesh, and two from West Bengal.

The victims from Punjab were:

Dharmindar Kumar, Harish Kumar, Harsimranjeet Singh, Kanwaljit Singh, Malkit Singh, Ranjit Singh, Sonu, Sandeep Kumar, Manjinder Singh, Gurcharan Singh, Balwant Singh, Roop Lal, Devinder Singh, Dewinder Singh, Kulwinder Singh, Jatinder Singh, Nishan Singh, Gurdip Singh, Kamaljit Singh, Gobinder Singh, Pritpal Sharma, Sukhwinder Singh, Jasvir Singh, Parvinder Kumar, Balvir Chand, Surjeet Mainka, Nand Lal, and Rakesh Kumar.
Aman Kumar, Sandeep Singh Rana, Inderjet, and Hem Raj were from Himachal Pradesh.

Samar Tikadar, and Khokhan Sikder were from West Bengal.

Santosh Kumar Singh, Bidya Bhushan Tiwari, Adalat Singh, Sunil Kumar Kushwaha, Dharmedra Singh, and Raju Kumar Yadav were from Bihar.

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On 2ND April 2018, Union Minister of State for External Affairs VK Singh and other officials carry the mortal remains of the 38 Indians, which are being brought back to India from Iraq.

Harjit Masih was the only survivor among the 40 Indians kidnapped by the terror group ISIS in Mosul.
The 24-year-old was part of the group that was kidnapped in 2014 while trying to escape an ISIS siege on June 11, 2014.

Sticking to his stand that all the Indian workers, including him, were fired at by terrorists, Harjit Masih told NDTV that he had used a different name as “they would have killed me if I had said my name is Harjit and I am an Indian.”

The remaining 39 Indians were taken to Badoosh and killed, she had said.

Search operations led to a mound in Badoosh where locals said some bodies were buried by the ISIS. Deep penetration radars were used to establish that the mound indeed was a mass grave, she had said, adding the Indian authorities requested their Iraqi counterpart to exhume the bodies.

Ms Swaraj said the mass grave had exactly 39 bodies, with distinctive features such as long hair, non-Iraqi shoes and IDs. The bodies were then sent to Baghdad for DNA testing.

DNA testing by Martyrs Foundation established the identity of 38 Indians while there has been 70 per cent matching of the DNA for the 39th person, she had said.