4 ISIS terrorists, natives of Sri Lanka, arrested at Ahmedabad airport

Ahmedabad,May 20 :  Four Islamic State terrorists were at Ahmedabad airport, the police said on Monday. They were tasked by their Pakistani handler to carry out suicide attacks in Gujarat, the police said.

The terrorists have been identified as Mohamed Nusrath, Mohamed Nafran, Mohamed Faris, and Mohamed Rasdeen.

Addressing the media, Deputy General of Police Vikas Sahay said the four terrorists are natives of Sri Lanka and were radicalised by the Islamic State’s ideology. They only speakTamil and don’t understand Hindi or English, he said.

The ISIS operatives first arrived in Chennai from Colombo and later reached Ahmedabad on Sunday, May 19, he said.

“We received information that four terrorists were going to reach Ahmedabad on May 18 or 19 either by train or flight… Teams were formed and strategy was created based on the information received… Passenger lists of trains and flights coming from the south were analysed… All four of them were travelling from Chennai to Ahmedabad on the same PNR number through an Indigo flight. Verification was done in Colombo too for confirmation,” the DGP said.

Two mobile phones, Indian and Sri Lankan currency, some Pakistan-made weapons and an Islamic State flag was recovered from them, he said.

DGP Sahay said the terrorists came in contact with an Islamic State operative named Abu in Pakistan. He had tasked them to carry out suicide attacks in Gujarat and gave them Rs 4 lakh to make bombs.

On scanning their phones, the police found mention of some locations near Ahmedabad, where they were likely to carry out terror attacks, the DGP said.

-The India Today