Families of all 39 Indians who went missing in Iraq three years ago have been asked to undergo DNA tests. In 2014, as many as 39 Indian labourers, mostly from Punjab, were reportedly taken hostage by the Islamic State group when it overran Iraq's second largest city of Mosul.<br/><br/><br/>Health authorities in Gurdaspur, Punjab have collected DNA samples of family members of three of the 39 Indians missing in Iraq. Gurdaspur Civil Surgeon Ram Lal said that the samples will be sent to the Forensic Laboratory in Hyderabad. <br/><br/>He said the Deputy Commissioner directed the Health Department to conduct the DNA tests of the families of the missing youths to ascertain their identities.<br/><br/>Meanwhile, in Amritsar, family members of the missing Indians said they were not told why they were asked to undergo DNA test but were asked to come to the government medical college in Amritsar for the test.<br/><br/>There has been no word on them but the government has insisted that without information otherwise, the workers are still considered alive.