The minister's remarks came in the backdrop of reports claiming that the terror group planned to execute the priest on Good Friday.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. (Photo: PTI)
New Delhi: India is making all efforts to secure the release of a priest from Kerala who was abducted by a terror group in Yemen last month, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Saturday.
The minister’s remarks came in the backdrop of reports claiming that the terror group planned to execute the priest on Good Friday. However, there is no report of any harm having come to him so far.
“Yemen is a conflict zone. We do not have an Embassy there. But we are making all efforts to secure his release,” Ms Swaraj said.
Fr Uzhunnalil had gone missing in Yemen after the Islamic State militant group attacked a care home run by Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity.
( Source : Deccan Chronicle. )
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