Scenes of jubilation in India's Kerala state.<br/> <br />Relatives and friends crowd the international airport in Kochi city to see their loved ones once again.<br/> <br />Forty six nurses, who were working in Iraq and abducted by suspected Islamist militants have finally come home.<br/> <br />For weeks, they'd been stranded in a hospital in the city of Tikrit, which had been taken over by ISIL rebels in fierce fighting with the Iraqi government.<br/> <br />Many thought they wouldn't make it back alive.<br/> <br />. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ANOTHER NURSE ABDUCTED IN IRAQ, MARINA (NO SURNAME GIVEN) SAYING:<br/> <br />"Two days back we really felt disturbed and we were thinking about our family. Now, finally I have reached here I am so happy because I saw my children and they are also very happy. If I wouldn't have come, they would have become orphan.<br/> <br />(Q. Did you ever imagine that you will come back?)<br/> <br />A. No, I never imagined. I thought I will never come back. I thought, (in), last two days I am finished. The
