Dozens of Indian nurses who have been stranded in northern Iraq are safe and will be flown back to India on Saturday.
The nurses will return home on a special aircraft arranged by the Indian government. They are expected to arrive in the southern city of Kochi.
The 46 nurses had been stranded for more than a week in Tikrit, where a leading Islamic militant group has taken over.
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