Tortured Keralites in Saudi given police cover: Sushma

This tweet not only comes as a relief for the relatives of the Indians stuck in then fire that was doused, but also for the Saudi authorities who had tried their best to secure all the patients.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Thursday said there were no Indian casualties in the fire incident today at a hospital in Saudi Arabia where 30 Indian nurses were on duty.

A lot of Indians, especially from the southern states, who reach the middle-east every year through agents who promise them good jobs and salary have become victims of cheating and end up doing hard physical jobs for survival.

The Saudi civil defence directorate said the blaze broke out at the Jizan General Hospital around 2.30 a.m., Al Jazeera reported.

On Wednesday, the minister stated that India had approached the Saudi police and got the youths police protection.

Videos of an Arab Sheikh brutally beating up three Indian workers is going viral on the internet.

A video allegedly recorded by one of the men shows a Saudi man assaulting them with a wooden plank, and has been circulating on WhatsApp. “They will be back in India within a week”, Sushma Swaraj tweeted.