Kalyan student who allegedly joined Islamic State killed in Iraq: Reports

One of four boys suspected to have joined terror outfit ISIS in Iraq is reported to have been killed. Arif Majeed’s family in Kalyan, near Mumbai, allegedly received a phone call informing them of his death.

Sources in the Maharashtra Anti-Terror Squad have told NDTV that Arif Majeed’s family received a call on Tuesday that he had died in Mosul, one of the towns worst affected by the fighting between Iraqi forces and the hardliner Sunni militants of the Islamic State. The news channel reports that one of Arif’s associates called his parents and told him he had died in an explosion.

Arif and three others were suspected to have joined the terror group in Iraq after they left their homes one day and then disappeared, CNN-IBN reports. The four are said to have left notes begging forgiveness from their families and insisting that they had to join the cause of jihad.

Arif’s family also said that the anonymous caller did not tell them anything about the other three boys.

On Tuesday, a report had revealed that ISIS was using the Indian Mujahideen to recruit poor Muslims in India. Central security agencies revealed that ISIS was targeting the youth in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Jammu and Kashmir.

ISIS or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is fighting a deadly battle in Iraq and Syria where it has killed thousands of people in a pursuit to establish an Islamic Caliphate.

With CNN-IBN inputs