Aman Tandel, the boy from Kalyan, Mumbai who had joined Islamic State, and changed his name to Abu Umar al Hindi is dead, IS confirmed on Tuesday.

Tandel had joined the ranks of IS in Syria. IS released a video in which it gave Tandel a martyr tribute in the name of Abu Umar al Hindi’ — Tandel’s Arabic name — alongside his photograph on its official media channel Khilafah news on Tuesday.

Tandel’s family had received an anonymous call about his death last month. However, there was no confirmation on the same by Indian security agencies or the government.

In the details released by IS of the deaths of its foreign recruits where it hails them as martyrs, it said that Tandel died in Raqqa — the centre of Caliphate declared by IS in Syria.

Tandel was shown along with other Indian recruits in a video released by IS earlier this year in which his friend Fahad Sheikh had vowed to take revenge of atrocities unleashed against Muslims in India. Tandel along with three other youth from Kalyan fled to Iraq in the guise of conducting pilgrimage and joined the IS in May 2014.

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Among them, Areeb Majeed returned last year following a six-month stint with the terror group. He is currently facing trial and is confined in Arthur road prison. Saheem Tanki was announced dead. Sheikh is the only member of the group alive and fighting with the IS in Syria now.