PM announces ₹10 lakh for kin of IS victims

April 04, 2018 12:57 am | Updated 06:37 pm IST - New Delhi

FILE PHOTO: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks with the media inside the parliament premises on the first day of the budget session, in New Delhi, India, January 29, 2018. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/File photo

FILE PHOTO: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks with the media inside the parliament premises on the first day of the budget session, in New Delhi, India, January 29, 2018. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/File photo

Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced an ex gratia payment of ₹10 lakh each to the next of kin of 39 Indians who were killed in Iraq, official sources said. The remains of 38 of them were brought back to the country on Monday and handed over to their relatives. Of the 39 killed by terror group Islamic State (IS), 27 hailed from Punjab, four from Himachal Pradesh, six from Bihar and two from West Bengal.

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