Home Ministry's high-level meet over ISIS underway

August 01, 2015 14:58

Union Home Ministry is holding a meeting with DGPs of various states on Saturday to review the situation in the wake of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria threat.

The meeting is being held a day after the Indian authorities managed to secure the safe release of two out of four Indians abducted by the terror group in Libya.

Externals Affair Minister Sushma Swaraj confirmed the development on Twitter.

Four Indian teachers were abducted by the terror group while they were on their way to India from Tripoli and Tunis.

While two of the professors are from Hyderabad, one is from Raichur and the other is from Bengaluru.

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