Daijiworld Media Network – Kannur (RJP)
Kannur, Nov 3 : Police here on Thursday November 3, released details of five men from the district believed to be fighting for the Islamic State (IS) in Syria.
Abdul Qayyum, Abdul Manaf, Shabeer, Suhail and Safwan are the five persons who are believed to be fighting in Syria. As per Kannur deputy superintendent of police P P Sadanandan these five men belong to different parts of the district.
"They are stationed in Syria. Cases were registered on 15 men from the district having links with the IS. While five others have been reported dead, five were arrested last week," Sadanandan said.
On October 25 and 26, police had arrested five suspected IS operatives from the district namey Rashid M V, Abdul Razzaq, Mithilaj K C, Manaf and Hamza. Hamza is believed to have functioned as a recruiter to the terrorist outfit.
Rashid, Razzaq and Mithilaj were stationed in Turkey and were trying to enter Syria when they were intercepted by the Turkish authorities and deported to India.
Information gathered from interrogating the arrested men confirmed that five others from the district were dead and all of them had left the country to join the IS. They also revealed that four of them were 30 years or less.
The five dead men are, Shahnad, Rishal, Shameer, his son Salman and Muhammad Shajir.