IS man from Kerala refutes death of 13 Indians in Afghan blast

Kasaragod youth terms media reports ‘fake’

The U.S. attacked the IS hideouts with a Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb.

Ashfak Majeed (27), one among the 21 youth from Kerala who was reported to have joined the Islamic State (IS) nearly a year ago, has termed “fake” media reports suggesting that at least 13 Indians were killed in the recent Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) in Afghanistan by the United States.

In intermittent communications purported to have been made between April 13 and 17 with activist-writer B.C.A. Rahman, a resident of Padanna, on “Telegram App” messages, Majeed has justified the stance adopted by them — 17 from Padanna and Thrikkaripur localities and four from Palakkad — that they do not intend to return home and are content in their anonymous location where the terror group is engaged in a fierce fight with the U.S. headed allied forces.

Drone strike kills one

He, however, confirmed that Murshid, 25, son of Muhamed, a resident of Vadakkepuram locality in Padanna, was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan

Majeed said they had resolved to become “shaheed” (martyrs) in the IS fight against the U.S. forces. He asked Rahman to show the message to his father and inform him that he would love to “meet him in paradise”.