Iraq deaths: PM Modi announces ex-gratia of Rs 1 mn to kin of 39 dead

If the government had any information about these people being in danger, it could have tried to save them, said VK Singh

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced an ex-gratia payment of Rs 1 million each to the next of the kin of 39 Indians who were killed in Iraq, official sources said.

The Congress has demanded Union minister General VK Singh's apology over his comments on giving compensation to the kin of the 39 workers killed in Iraq's Mosul. Earlier, the minister had said that compensating the families of the victims ''is not like distributing biscuits''.

The mortal remains of 38 of the 39 Indians killed in Iraq, arrived at the