Patna: A worker from Bihar who returned from strifetorn Iraq after being trapped there for over a week said on Saturday that he would never again return to work in the Islamic country as the scenes of large-scale violence and deaths he saw were “too scary” for him.
“I feel extremely lucky to have escaped that maut ka kuan (well of death),” said Mohammad Nematullah in his home in Bihar’s western Gopalganj district a day after his arrival. The 28-year-old has been working as a manual labourer with a oil company in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul that was overtaken by ISIL militants last week.
Nematullah said he was unsure of his safety till just four days ago, till he got the opportunity to move out from the country. “I saw so much blood in the open and so many bodies lying around that I was too scared and felt I might never again return home. When the ISIL militants saw my passport, they allowed me to return but many of my friends are still trapped there,” he added.
