The jail, India Today found, had been reduced to rubble, with no sign of humanity around. The minister was carrying DNA samples of some of the relatives while some more will be collected in due course for any possible identification exercise, he told India Today in the Iraqi capital. In capital Damascus, the Syrian regime told India Today they had received no information about the Indians abducted in Mosul in mid-2014. If the ISIS brought them, they would have brought them to Raqqa, not to us, not to the Syrian government," she told India Today. WATCH THE FIRST GROUND REPORT | India Today ground report: Mystery over 39 Indians missing in Iraq deepens

Source: India Today October 26, 2017 10:28 UTC