Iraqi authorities have discovered a mass grave with the bodies of 38 Indian construction workers abducted when ISIS militants overran the northern city of Mosul in 2014, officials said Tuesday. The abducted workers, most from northern India, had been employed by a construction company operating near Mosul when militants captured wide swaths of northern Iraq in the summer of 2014. Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj speaks to reporters Tuesday in New Delhi after authorities confirmed the deaths of the Indian men in Iraq. Indian authorities then sent DNA samples from relatives of the missing workers. Iraqi authorities said the mass grave held 39 bodies, but only 38 have been positively identified through DNA analysis.

Source: CBC News March 20, 2018 09:45 UTC