Mumbai: Government sources have said that four Indian nationals, hailing from Kalyan near Mumbai, who were reported to have joined the Islamic State terrorist group, want to return home.

As per media reports on Wednesday, sources in the Union Home Ministry said that members of one of the four youths' families contacted the government and apprised them of the development.

The youth's father told officials that his son wanted to come back home but needed government's help for the same.

Sources said the government has information on three other youths who also want to come back from Iraq where they had gone to fight for the IS.