MORTAL REMAINS OF INDIANS KILLED IN IRAQ LIKELY TO ARRIVE TOMORROW

Mortal remains of 39 Indian workers killed in Mosul city of Iraq are expected to arrive at Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport in Amritsar on Monday, Amritsar deputy commissioner Kamaldeep Singh Sandha said on Saturday. He said the remains will arrive by a special plane.

: Mortal remains of 39 Indian workers killed in Mosul city of Iraq are expected to arrive at Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport in the city on Monday, Amritsar deputy commissioner Kamaldeep Singh Sangha said on Saturday.

He added that the remains would arrive by a special plane.

“After the Centre informed me, I took a meeting of the customs department, the police, the airport authority, the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and the immigration bureau to make arrangements,” the DC said.

He added that security had been beefed up around the airport and duties had been assigned to staff to ensure the kin faced no problem in the process relating to the claiming of the remains.

Of the 39 people killed, 27 were from Punjab; four from Himachal; two from West Bengal and the remaining are from Bihar.

KHAIRA DEMANDS ₹1 CR COMPENSATION

Meanwhile in Kapurthala, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA and the leader of opposition in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha Sukhpal Singh Khaira met family members of one of the deceased Gobinder Singh of Murar village on Saturday and said the government should provide ₹1-crore compensation each to the families of Punjab natives killed in Iraq.

Khaira also promised ₹50,000 to Gobinder’s family from his own pocket. The sole breadwinner of the family, Gobinder went to work in a construction company in Iraq in 2013 to shore up his domestic finances after taking a loan of ₹1.5 lakh.