WEB DESK
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says the fate of 39 Indians captured by the Islamic State group when the extremists initially overran Mosul three years ago is still unknown.
In an interview with the Associated Press today, he said the situation is “still under investigation at the moment and he cannot comment any further on the issue.
Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj had told relatives of the workers in July that they might be held in a prison in Badush, northwest of Mosul, which Iraqi forces have taken back from IS.
The abducted workers, mostly from northern India, had been employed by an Iraqi construction company