PM rakes up nurses’ abduction issue to woo TN voters

 While addressing a rally in Vedaranyam, Nagapattinam district (Tamil Nadu), Modi also hit out at the state government on the security of women in the state saying that, “You can imagine what we went through when our daughters who worked abroad as nurses were kidnapped by terrorists”.

The 46 Indian nurses, most from Kerala and Tamil Nadu. were trapped in a Tikrit hospital in 2014. Tikrit was captured by ISIS. They were kidnapped and taken to Mosul by the jihadi group.

The External affairs ministry and Indian officials in Baghdad collectively worked to bring them back to India.  PM also appreciated the efforts of the Indian government saying that, “I am very happy to tell you that we safely brought them back”.