New Delhi: Six persons from India who joined terror organisation ISIS have been killed while fighting, whereas seven Indians are currently working with ISIS in Iraq and Syria, according to sources.
Among the seven Indians with ISIS, two are from Mumbai’s outskirts Kalyan, and an Australia-based Kashmiri and four others are from Telangana, Karnataka capital Bengaluru, Oman and Singapore.
Among the six Indians, who fought alongside the Isis and were killed, three were Indian Mujahideen terrorists, including Sultan Ajmer Shah and Bada Sajid, who had joined its ranks after being in Pakistan, two were from Maharashtra and one from Telangana.
Quoting intelligence inputs, sources said, “Except for one, none of the six other Indians currently with ISIS are allowed to go for combat duty and mostly assist the fighters, serving as cooks, drivers and helpers”.
The only Indian, who has been given an assault rifle and is deployed for combat, hails from Kalyan, they said.
So far, 17 young men, mostly from Telangana, have been prevented from travelling to Syria, ostensibly to join ISIS.
The issue of radicalized Indian youths joining ISIS had figured prominently during a meeting of top security experts here on Saturday.