LeT leader, key planner of 26/11 Mumbai terror attack dies in Pakistani jail: reports

Updated : May 30, 2023 14:56
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Editorji News Desk

Lashkar-e-Taiba leader Abdul Salam Bhuttavi, who trained terrorists who carried out the 2008 Mumbai attacks, has died in a Pakistani prison.

According to media reports, Bhuttavi died of a heart attack in a jail in Sheikhupura in Pakistan’s Punjab province on Monday afternoon where he was serving a 16-year prison term in a terror financing case.

Bhuttavi was designated as a terrorist by the UN Security Council in 2012. He was convicted on terror financing charges in 2020. 

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