NEW DELHI: It was a joyous and emotional homecoming for the 46 Indian nurses who finally flew home to India on Saturday after spending several days caught in a tense and uncertain situation in the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit.
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Meanwhile, in Hyderabad, seventy-eight employees of the Baghdad Soft Drinks Company landed at Shamshabad airport in the afternoon, waving out to their family members who had come from villages to receive them. The workers were from Telangana and AP.
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The nurses were stuck in a hospital in Tikrit where they worked ever since the town was overrun by militants from the Islamic State, formerly known as Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, in
June. They were forcibly moved from Tikrit to Mosul yet another town triggering fears that they were taken captive.
However, they were eventually moved to the Kurdish city of Erbil and freed.
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Watch: Nurses happy to reach home safely
