Updated On: 20 June, 2014 07:48 AM IST | | Agencies
<p>India says the 40 Indian workers abducted in strife-torn Iraq are safe and told their distraught families that the "very best" efforts are going on to have them freed</p>

New Delhi: India on Thursday said the 40 Indian workers abducted in strife-torn Iraq are safe and told their distraught families that the "very best" efforts are going on to have them freed.

Iraqi insurgents in Mosul. Pic: AFP