For Kerala nurses, Tikrit is better than home
June 23, 2014  12:58
Bursts of gunfire punctuate the eerie silence around them. The packets of biscuits supplied by NGOs are running out. They haven't been paid for two months. Yet two-thirds of the 46 Kerala nurses holed up in their hospital in civil war-torn Iraq's Tikrit town would rather not return home if evacuated. Conditions are so bad back in Kerala that they want to stay on in Iraq if some sort of security is assured, they have said. Read 
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