Keralite youth who joined IS killed in drone attack in Afghan: reports

Malappuram: A Keralite youth, who allegedly joined the Islamic State (IS) militant group in Afghanistan, was reportedly killed in a US drone attack. According to the news agency ANI, Muhammad Muhsin, a native of Edappal in Kerala's Malappuram district, was killed on July 18 during a drone attack in the Khorasan province of Afghanistan.

His relatives had reportedly received a WhatsApp message from an unidentified mobile number in Afghanistan. The message said "your brother achieved martyrdom." The messenger also asked the family not to inform the police about it.

Muhsin allegedly joined IS in October, 2017.

In 2017, while he was a final year student in an Engineering college in Thrissur, Muhasin had left home saying he was going to Bengaluru.

Police, acting on a missing complaint from his relatives, had registered a case, conducted a probe and found that he had left for Dubai.

The Intelligence Bureau had also probed his disappearance.

According to the relatives, the IB had visted them and informed them that Muhasin had joined the Islamic State (IS).

With the report of his death coming in, police in Malapppuram once again began the probe.

Two years ago, a missing man from Kasaragod in Kerala, who was suspected to have joined Islamic State, was killed in a drone strike in Afghanistan.

Murshid Muhammed, a native of Padna in Kerala's Kasargod district, was killed in a drone attack in Nangarhar province in Afghanistan.

He was among the 21 people from the state, who reportedly went missing after travelling to the Middle East and were suspected to have joined the IS in Syria.

Earlier, another man T K Hafeesudeen, 24, also from Padna, was killed in a drone attack in Afghanistan.