Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy is set to meet External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today over the matter of 46 Indian nurses who are stuck in a building in Iraq's war-torn Tikrit town.
Chandy said,"We are meeting the Foreign Minister today. We are most concerned about the safety of the nurses. We are trying for them to come to India."
The Ministry of External Affairs had yesterday assured that the nurses were safe and unharmed.
"We can confirm that they are unharmed and safe," MEA spokesperson, Syed Akbaruddin had said while addressing a press conference.
The government had on Tuesday said that there was bombing and firing in the vicinity of the building which housed the 46 nurses and they had taken refuge in the basement.
