India trying to secure release of priest in Yemen

Sushma Swaraj (External Affairs Minister) said India is making all efforts to secure the release of a priest who was abducted by a terror group in Yemen last month. The minister’s remarks came in the backdrop of reports claiming that the terror group planned to execute the priest on Good Friday yesterday. However, there is no report of any harm having come to him so far. Father Tom Uzhunnallil an Indian national from Kerala was abducted by a terror group in Yemen. Uzhunnalil had gone missing in Yemen after the Islamic State militant group attacked a care home run by Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity. Yemen is a conflict zone. We do not have Embassy there. Gunmen had stormed the refuge for the elderly earlier this month and killed a Yemeni guard before tying up and shooting 15 other employees. Four foreign nuns including an Indian working as nurses were among those killed.

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