Mumbai 1993 bombs blast's most wanted Salim Gazi dies in Pakistan
Gazi was one of the accused in 1993 blasts of Mumbai that rocked Mumbai, claiming lives of 257 and left 713 injured.
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Mumbai, January 17: Salim Gazi, a close aide of the underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and Chhota Shakeel, died in Karachi, Pakistan, according to reports. Reports said that Gazi died of heart problems.
He was suffering from diabetes, hypertension and some mroe ailments. Gazi was one of the accused in the 1993 serial blasts of Mumbai that had rocked the commercial capital of the country, claiming lives of 257 people while leaving 713 injured.
The most wanted 1993 serial blast accused Salim Gazi, a member of the Dawood gang and close aide of Chota Shakeel died on Saturday in Karachi, Pakistan: Mumbai Police Sources
— ANI (@ANI) January 16, 2022
Gazi was accused of abetting the blast and soon after the incident, he had fled to Pakistan along with other gang members of Dawood Ibrahim. Ever since then, the Indian authorities had failed to nab him.
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Last year, Yusuf Memon, brother of Tiger Memon, (one of the conspirators of the blast), had died at Nashik Road Central Jail. Another convict Mustafa Dossa, also died in 2017. Close to 257 people had died, while 713 people were injured after a series of bomb blasts that took place in Mumbai on March 12, 1993.