The labourers, mostly from Punjab, were reportedly taken hostage by the Islamic State in 2014 when it overran Iraq's second largest city of Mosul

Families of 39 Indians missing in Iraq to undergo DNA test

India's Minister of State for External Affairs VK Singh said the government would not abandon its citizens and that he had information from Iraq which had been shared with the families of the missing Indians

Search operations to locate 39 missing Indians in Iraq underway: Indian govt

Iraq's ambassador in India Fakhri Al-Issa says the fear is that the IS could have used some of those missing Indians and Iraqi nationals as slave labour or human shields

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