While Telangana Government found out that there are a minimum 640 people from Telangana in Iraq, some of them from Iraq say most of them are in the safer regions, away from the city of Mosul, the centre of civil war right now. They say Telanganas are mostly in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of Erbil and some in southern Iraq. These are away from regions of turbulence and life is life is normal, as per them. Meanwhile International Red Crescent confirmed that 40 Indians, mostly Punjabis, were kidnapped by rebels in Mosul. The abductors are supposedly from ISIS, the Jihadist group which is the cause of the present strife in Iraq. Indian embassy is yet to establish contact with the kidnappers ...

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