Maharashtra engineering student fighting for ISIS killed in Iraq
HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times
Mumbai, August 27, 2014
Mumbai, August 27, 2014
First Published: 18:05 IST(27/8/2014)
Last Updated: 18:07 IST(27/8/2014)
Arif Ejaz Majeed, one of the four youths from Kalyan suspected to have joined the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), was killed in Iraq on Tuesday.
The deceased, a third-year civil engineering student in his early twenties, was reportedly killed in a blast, claimed his kin.
Majeed's companion Shaheen Tanki called up his parents and asked them to inform Majeed's family about the death.
"He has sacrificed his life. He is a martyr now," Tanki is believed to have told his parents over the phone call. Soon, the news about Majeed's death spread across the neighbourhood of Sarvoday Park, Kalyan (west), where Majeed's parents continue to stay.
Majeed, who recently graduated from Panvel based Kalsekar College, went missing from the city along with three others.
The police are yet to confirm whether Majeed and his friends had joined the ISIS, although the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the Anti-Terrorism Squad are investigating the matter.
As the news reached Majeed's friends and family, relatives flocked his house to pay their condolences. Following the afternoon prayers on Wednesday, the family also organised a funeral prayer which was attended by over 250 people. The family is shocked by the incident and declined to speak when HT approached them.
"No one knows how he was killed, ISIS has declared him a martyr," said a family member.
Top senior officials of the Maharashtra police, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that they are not in a position to authenticate the reports.
The other there youths who are missing from May 24 are Fahad Sheikh, a mechanical engineering graduate, Aman Naeem Tandel, a third-year mechanical engineering student and Shaheen Tanki, an HSC drop out.
The deceased, a third-year civil engineering student in his early twenties, was reportedly killed in a blast, claimed his kin.
Majeed's companion Shaheen Tanki called up his parents and asked them to inform Majeed's family about the death.
"He has sacrificed his life. He is a martyr now," Tanki is believed to have told his parents over the phone call. Soon, the news about Majeed's death spread across the neighbourhood of Sarvoday Park, Kalyan (west), where Majeed's parents continue to stay.
Majeed, who recently graduated from Panvel based Kalsekar College, went missing from the city along with three others.
The police are yet to confirm whether Majeed and his friends had joined the ISIS, although the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the Anti-Terrorism Squad are investigating the matter.
As the news reached Majeed's friends and family, relatives flocked his house to pay their condolences. Following the afternoon prayers on Wednesday, the family also organised a funeral prayer which was attended by over 250 people. The family is shocked by the incident and declined to speak when HT approached them.
"No one knows how he was killed, ISIS has declared him a martyr," said a family member.
Top senior officials of the Maharashtra police, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that they are not in a position to authenticate the reports.
The other there youths who are missing from May 24 are Fahad Sheikh, a mechanical engineering graduate, Aman Naeem Tandel, a third-year mechanical engineering student and Shaheen Tanki, an HSC drop out.
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