Former diplomat calls killing of Indians in Iraq as 'extremely tragic'

The former Secretary of Foreign Affairs Nirupama Rao on Tuesday called the killing of 39 Indians by ISIS in Iraq as 'extremely tragic'.

While talking to ANI at a book launch event at US Embassy, the former diplomat said, "I think it is extremely tragic that these 39 Indians were murdered cold-bloodedly in Iraq. It took a lot of time to come to a closure as the Indians had been missing in Iraq since 4 years."

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, while replying to a question in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, revealed that tragic news to the nation.

The 39 people, most of whom hailed from Punjab, were working on projects near strife-ridden Mosul when they were kidnapped during their evacuation in 2014.