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Thirteen Nepali nationals reportedly abducted from Baghdad, Iraq a week ago, have been freed on Wednesday, foreign ministry officials said.

The freed Nepalis are safe and process to bring them back to Nepal has begun, said Pradhyumna Bikram Shah, joint-secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA).

Those freed from captivity are Deepak Bhattarai, Indra Prasad Bhattarai, Dilip Kumar Sunuwar, Tekraj Rai, Laxmi Yonjan, Laxman Thakur, Prem Prasad Koirala, Jaya Kumar Rai, Prem Giri, Lok Chand Chaulagain, Tilak Bahadur Thapa, Yogendra Sunuwar and Raj Kumar Gurung.

They had entered Iraq for employment illegally. Nepal government has banned Nepalis to go to Iraq for employment.

The thirteen Nepalis were reportedly held hostage and taken some 400 kilometers away from the Iraqi capital to employ them at work forcefully. nepalnews.com

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regenlama  - hellow   |113.199.173.xxx |2009-07-17 12:11:10 Hi, I think they havent mentioned, who is the resposible for the abduction, and the other thing is,the incident is very serious matter for our country but non of the any news or any television news had ever mentioned about it. kESHAV  - SHARMA   |203.90.105.xxx |2009-07-17 11:45:29 NEPALI GOVERMENT, BROKER(DALAL) ALL ARE MAKING MONEY.NEPALI PEOPLE DAILY DIEING OR ABDUCTED IN ALL OVER THE WORLD. ray  - manpower who send them to Iraq   |87.65.74.xxx |2009-07-17 11:08:38 Those insution or poeple who are involved them to send Iraq has to death panelty so they never dare to do so. narain dan  - Take action   |86.96.226.xxx |2009-07-17 07:33:16 I would like to request the Nepal Government that they will take action those who are involving to send them to Iraq & Let other agency Broker's will know the punishments. Kaps  - help to them   |168.215.120.xxx |2009-07-17 07:03:30 Respected Nepal government at present please help them. I kind let you know this feeble of agent who brought to iraq, If government will completele prohibite and control the airport cruption may it help in future. This is not first time, why the government quit from 2003 to 2009. Everyone know about the agent why government doesnt arrest them. still in iraq 27000 nepali worker working in different company,why the govenment doesnt take any step. i dont want to remind that previous hapning. God bess them Powered by !JoomlaComment 3.26

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