were later provided by an official of the Ministry of Health (Iraq). The official and two Iraqi soldiers who were guarding the hospital left days prior to the takeover by ISIS on June 29, as had the local Iraqi nurses weeks ago. ISIS first moved the nurses to the hospital's basement and initially refused to hand them over. After negotiations by the Embassy of India in Baghdad, lead by ambassador Ajay Kumar Amban and former ambassador B. B. Tyagi, the group agreed to release the hostages in Mosul. They were shifted to Mosul by ISIS and handed over to Indian officials on July 4, 2014, the officials took them to Erbil and they were flown out to India from the Erbil International Airport. The majority of the nurses were from the state of Kerala and chief minister Oommen Chandy kept in touch with the hostages throughout the ordeal. The nurses later stated they were treated well by ISIS militants, some of whom they had treated during the initial takeover of the Tikrit hospital. Two 2017 Indian films are based on the incident, Take Off (2017) and Tiger Zinda Hai (2017). 39 killed, 1 escaped Forty Indian migrant workers — from Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal — went missing in June 2014 after Mosul fell to the Islamic State. In 2015, one of them, Harjit Masih, managed to flee from the clutches of ISIS and said all other Indians were killed in the mass executions in ISIL-occupied Mosul. But the External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj refused to buy his claims then. In July, 2017, she said she would not declare the missing persons dead until she had a concrete evidence. Swaraj informed the Parliament of India that "sources who gave the government the confidence of not abandoning the search for the abducted Indians in Iraq include a head of state and a foreign minister of another country." She had then refused to disclose the identity of the sources, citing "diplomatic confidentiality". On 20 March 2018, Swaraj declared in the parliament that 39 missing Indian workers had been killed, "I have concrete proof that 39 Indians have been killed. We wanted to give the families closure". The physical remains of the dead were repatriated by the government in a special aircraft. Indonesia 4 released Istiqomah binti Misnad and Casingkem binti Aspin, two female workers of an electricity firm were kidnapped