Dawood Ibrahim Aide And 1993 Mumbai Serial Blasts Accused Salim Gazi Dies In Karachi

Salim Gazi, a member of the Dawood gang and close aide of Chota Shakeel, died due to heart problems. He was also suffering from diabetes, hypertension and other health issues.

Dawood Ibrahim Aide And 1993 Mumbai Serial Blasts Accused Salim Gazi Dies In Karachi. (Representative Image: Getty)

New Delhi: Salim Abdul Gani Gazi, the most wanted in 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, died in Pakistan’s Karachi on Saturday.

According to Mumbai police sources as quoted by news agency ANI, Salim Gazi, a member of the Dawood gang and close aide of Chota Shakeel, died due to heart problems. He was also suffering from diabetes, hypertension and other health issues.

Gazi is said to have married again in Karachi even though his first wife and children reside in Mumbai and UAE, as per a report of India Today.

Gazi was an active participant in the serial blasts of 1993 that had rocked the commercial capital. As many as 257 people were killed and 713 were injured.

Gazi, who was accused of abetting the blast, fled to Pakistan with the other gang members of Dawood Ibrahim, soon after the incident. The Indian authorities have failed to nab him since then. In Pakistan, Gazi used to handle Shakeel's businesses and illegal operations.

Last year, Yusuf Memon, who was serving life imprisonment at Nashik Road Central Jail, had died of a heart attack. He was the brother of the mastermind behind the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts, Tiger Memon.

Yusuf’s brother Tiger Memon, was one of the most important co-conspirators in the bomb blasts, along with Dawood Ibrahim. While Dawood arranged for the RDX to land at Shekhadi Coast in Raigad district, it was Tiger Memon who had overseen the logistics of transporting them to Mumbai.

Another brother of Tiger Memon, Yakub Memon was hanged in 2015. Another convict, Mustafa Dossa, had also died in 2017.