Security agencies are examining reports that four Indians could be among the 20 ISIS fighters, who were reportedly beheaded in full public view for trying to flee a war zone in Iraq's Mosul city. However, there is no confirmation yet about the killing of four Indians, sources said.
According to Indian intelligence agencies, a total of 23 Indians have so far joined ISIS, of whom six were killed in different incidents in Iraq-Syria. As many as 17 Indians are believed to be in different conflict zones of ISIS-held areas.
Agencies were verifying the reports through different sources and trying to ascertain where there were Indians among those beheaded, the sources said.
Sending out a chilling warning to others in the terror group against desertion, the ISIS captured a group of its own militants who tried to escape the battlefront in Mosul and executed them in public, Ara News reported quoting a local source citing an ISIS "official" as saying.
"The dissidents were arrested at a checkpoint in the vicinity of Mosul on Friday. After being identified as fighters who have left their positions at the fighting front in western Mosul, they were transferred to the Sharia Court for prosecution," the Ara News said.