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Indian nurses reach Mumbai

Indian nurses reaches Mumbai

A special Air India flight carrying 46 Indian nurses set free by Sunni militants in strife-torn Iraq and 137 others landed in Mumbai and is scheduled to arrive in Kochi around noon . This is one of the first major foreign policy achievement of the Narendra Modi government.The nurses had been living in a hospital in Tikrit, the birthplace of former president Saddam Hussein, which has seen fierce fighting this week as Iraqi troops battle to regain control of the city from the Sunni insurgent group ISIS or the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.