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World Service,16 Nov 2017,12 mins

The Indian Nurse Held Hostage by IS

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Marina Jose is an Indian nurse who has worked in different parts of the world. In 2014 she was part of a group of nurses held hostage for 23 days by militants from so-called Islamic State. It happened when they were working at Tikrit hospital in Northern Iraq. She told Matthew Bannister how they survived. Image: View of Tikrit March 2015 Credit: AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/Getty Images

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