'Abducted' Indian nurses reach Mosul, unharmed

05:50AM Fri 4 Jul, 2014

This photo taken on Tuesday, July 1, 2014, shows damaged homes due to clashes between fighters of ISIS and Iraqi security forces in Tikrit, 130 kilometers north of Baghdad, Iraq. (Photo: AP)   THIRUVANANTHAPURAM/NEW DELHI: The 46 Indian nurses who were forcibly moved by suspected ISIS militants from Tikrit have reached the Iraqi city of Mosul and are unharmed, said a source on Friday. The nurses were taken in buses from Tikrit to Mosul by a team of the Sunni insurgents on Thursday. The nurses reached Mosul at around midnight India time. "They are safe and have been kept in two rooms which has only one door," a source close to the nurses told IANS. The nurses were provided food and water by their escorts. IANS