Thiruvananthapuram: One of the 46 nurses from Kerala who were now confined in Iraq’s Mosul city by Sunni insurgents has spoken to her mother and said all of them were safe.

Her mother told reporters here Friday that she got a call from her daughter in Mosul and things are fine.

“She just called and said they reached Mosul late on Thursday. She was able to sleep around 2 a.m. She said they are put in a building and there are armed people guarding them from outside,” said the nurse’s mother.

“She said they gave them food and water and are behaving with them in a decent manner and till now things are fine,” the mother added.

The mother, however, did not say if these nurses will have to provide medical treatment to those injured in Mosul and were in hospitals.

“No, she never said anything like that,” said the mother.

On Thursday afternoon, the Kerala nurses were shifted from Iraq’s Tikrit city to Mosul by gun totting men in a vehicle.

Indian nurses reach Mosul, unharmed

The 46 Indian nurses who were forcibly moved by suspected ISIS militants from Tikrit have reached the Iraqi city of Mosul and are unharmed, said a source on Friday.

The nurses were taken in buses from Tikrit to Mosul by a team of the Sunni insurgents on Thursday.

The nurses reached Mosul at around midnight India time.

“They are safe and have been kept in two rooms which has only one door,” a source close to the nurses told IANS.

The nurses were provided food and water by their escorts.

The militants have now adopted a “tough” attitude towards the nurses, the source added.

The Sunni militants were pleasant tempered towards the nurses on Thursday but “are now displaying a tough attitude”, the source added.