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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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Indian priest kidnapped in Yemen by unknown gunmen could be in the hands of ISIS according to the media reports. Tom Unzhunnalil was kidnapped from the Missionaries of Charity’s home for the elderly in Aden where he serves as a chaplain on March 4. There are rumours going around that he will be crucified on Good Friday. However, a spokesman for the Bangalore province of the Salesians was quoted saying that no group has taken any responsibility yet. A post on the group’s South Africa page has been taken down. Earlier, the Yemen authorities blamed ISIL for the attack on March 4.