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13 Indians joins IS, 6 got killed: report

Xinhua, August 4, 2015 Adjust font size:

Some 13 Indians reportedly joined the Islamic State (IS) in the past one-and-a-half years and six of them have been killed.

"Of those alive, our input indicates only one is in a combat role. The others are in ancillary roles like cooks, drivers and helpers," a Home Ministry official was quoted by local TV channel 'NDTV' as saying.

The seven IS recruits who are alive include two from a group of four that left the country in May from Mumbai, and three young Indian men who lived in Australia, Oman and Singapore, the report said.

During the weekend, the Indian government held a high-level meeting to discuss the growing threat of IS, a terror group that controls much of Iraq and Syria. Endi