Hyderabad, May 15 -- Nine Indian migrant workers have been stranded in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, for the past four months after their employer allegedly stopped providing work and confiscated their passports, leaving them helpless and without a way to return to India.

The workers are now appealing to the Indian Embassy in Riyadh and Union minister of external affairs Dr S Jaishankar, to intervene and facilitate their safe repatriation.

Among the group, eight are employed as cleaners and one as a foreman at Abdulla Ali Al Abdulaal EST, a company contracted at a Saudi Aramco site. All were left jobless earlier this year when the company suddenly ceased assigning tasks and failed to renew their work visas.

Confined to their accommodation, the...