39 Indians killed by Islamic State in Iraq's Mosul: List of names of 27 deceased identified so far

On Tuesday, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj told the Rajya Sabha that 39 Indians who had gone missing in 2014, had been killed by the Islamic State.

FP Staff|Mar 20, 2018, 13:21:41 IST

On Tuesday, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj told the Rajya Sabha that 39 Indians who had gone missing in 2014, had been killed by the Islamic State.She noted that their bodies had been spotted using deep penetration radar. The bodies were then exhumed from mass graves and their identities confirmed by DNA tests, she added.Firstpost was able to access a list of 27 deceased who have been identified so far. Of these, 22 were from Punjab, three from Himachal Pradesh and two from Bihar.The list provided by sources in the Ministry of External Affairs follows:

S No	Name	Father's Name	City of Origin
1	Manjinder Singh	Hardeep Singh	Bhoewal (Amritsar)
2	Jatinder Singh	Balkar Singh	Sialka (Amritsar)
3	Harsimaranjit Singh	Tarsem Singh	Babowal (Amritsar)
4	Sonu	Shira	Chwinda Devi (Amritsar)
5	Gurcharan Singh	Sardara Singh	Jalal Usman (Amritsar)
6	Kawaljit Singh	Harbhajan Singh	Roopawali PO - Bholeke Batala (Gurdaspur)
7	Nishan Singh	Gurmej Singh	Sangoana, PO-Kamanpur, Teh-Ajanala (Amritsar)
8	Harish Kumar	Satpal Singh	Batala (Gurdaspur)
9	Gobinder Singh	Baldinder Singh	Murar, PO-Hamira (Kapurthala)
10	Malkit Singh	Sukhdev Singh	Tilianwala Batal (Gurdaspur)
11	Ranjit Singh	Balwinder Singh	Manawala, The-Ajnala (Amritsar)
12	Dharminder Kumar	Raj Kumar	Talwandi Jhira PO-Bhullar, Teh-Batala (Gurdaspur)
13	Balwant Rai	Ronki Ram	Dhadde (Jalandhar)
14	Kamaljit Singh	Prem Singh	Choni Kalan (Hoshiarpur)
15	Gurdeep Singh	Mukhtar Singh	Jaidpur (Hoshiarpur)
16	Kulwinder	Jagdish Kumar	Khanke (Bhogpur)
17	Roop Lal	Gurdev Lal	Bath Kalan, Nakoder
18	Surjit Mainka	Hans Raj	Churuwali (Jalandhar)
19	Dawinder Singh	Kewal Singh	Chak Desh Raj (Jalandhar)
20	Parvinder Kumar	Jeet Ram	Jagatpur
21	Pritpal Sharma	Sadha Singh	Dhuri
22	Rakesh	Madan Lal	Qadian
23	Aman Kumar		Himachal Pradesh
24	Inderjit		Himachal Pradesh
25	Sandeep Kumar		Himachal Pradesh
26	Vidhya	Bushan Tiwari	Bihar
27	Santosh Kumar		Bihar

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