NEW DELHI: Soon after information surfaced claiming that the Indian who carried out a suicide attack for the ISIS in Libya is a Malayalee, central agencies have begun probe into the incident. An article in the organization’s mouthpiece ‘Voice of Khorasan’ claimed that a youth from Kerala had died in the suicide attack in Sirte. It also mentioned about how he came to join the global militant group.

However, the article does not mention about the engineer’s name or when he died in the attack in Sirte. The organization gave him the name Abu Bakr Al-Hindi. He belonged to a Christian family in Kerala. There are numerous engineers in his family. He was a single child, worked as an engineer in Bengaluru and then shifted to the Gulf. During the time, he got to know about the ISIS through online media and found people with links with the terrorist group via internet.

According to the organization’s mouthpiece, he was assigned to work in Yemen after expressing his interest in working for the ISIS, but was asked to return as he could not go there. Following which, he came back home and was asked to go to Libya. He was given strict training there. Later, he himself came forward to carry out a suicide attack, stated the article.

Reportedly, Abu Bakr Al-Hindi is believed to have died in a suicide attack in Libya during 2015-16. In its mouth piece, ISIS described him as the first martyr from India to be killed in Africa.