DHAKA: Bangladesh ambassador to Iraq Major General (retd) Rezanur Rahman Khan has expressed his surprise over a report telecast by Delhi-based television channel, NDTV.

The report said 10 Bangladeshi nurses also used to work with 46 Indian nurses in a hospital in Tikrit of Iraq which he denied.

Rezanur Rahman Khan confirmed banglanews that there was no Bangladeshi nurse who used to work in any hospital of Tikrit.

Those who used to live in Tikrit are safe now, he added.

The ambassador disclosed the matter when banglanews journalist drew his attention to the NDTV report that talked about Bangladeshi nurses.

On July 4, an NDTV report said extremists of Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant kidnapped 56 nurses of a local hospital. Of them, 46 were Indian and 10 from Bangladesh.

Rezanur Rahman Khan also said, “There were no Bangladeshi nurses in Tikrit except 31 male most of who were cleaners. But they had left the hospital earlier and currently working at the governor house of neighbouring Saladin province.”

Meanwhile, all 46 Indian nurses who were freed by militants in war-torn Iraq have returned on Saturday.

BDST: 2040 HRS, JUL 05, 2014