On 12 Jun, Parminder Kaur told journalists at Palam Vihar, Delhi that her thirty-year old husband Tejpal Singh died in the Russia-Ukraine war. Kaur said, ‘Two days ago, one of my husband's friends called and told me that he was killed fighting for Russia on the battlefield in Ukraine.’ Tejpal went to Russia on a tourist visa in January this year and was killed in March, but news of his death surfaced much later due to the conflict between the two countries. The body is yet to be found (SDW Vol. 2 Issue 11, Story 7). In Kuwait, sixty-two-year-old Himat Rai from Salempur village in Hoshiarpur district was among those killed in a fire at Al-Mangaf building. Rai was working as a foreman in a firm in Kuwait for the last thirty years. He is survived by his wife Sarbjit Kaur, two married daughters and a minor son. Over a dozen youths from Panjab are apparently trapped in Armavir jail in Armenia after falling prey to deceptive travel agents promising greener pastures to them in Europe. In footage released on social media, these stranded youth are seen making fervent appeals for help. Rajya Sabha member Balbir Singh Seechewal has written to the Indian External Affairs Ministry to take steps to free them. In Manila, where Panjabis work as money lenders, an average of one person is murdered every two months. In spite of these incidents, and the precariousness of life overseas, the youth in Panjab hardly see a future locally and want to go abroad.
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