1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yusuf Memon dies at Nashik Road prison

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1993 Mumbai serial blasts case convict Yusuf Memon has died at Nashik Road prison in Maharashtra.

A jail official told news agency PTI  that the cause of death is yet to be ascertained, and that the body would be sent to Dhule for autopsy.

Yusuf Memon is the brother of Tiger Memon, an accused in the case who is still absconding.

Nashik police commissioner Vishwas Nangre-Patil confirmed Memon's death.

While Tiger Memon was allegedly the mastermind of the blasts conspiracy alongwith fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim, Yusuf was accused of allowing his flat and garage at Al-Husseini building in Mumbai for terrorist activities.

A special TADA court had sentenced him to life imprisonment.

Yakub Memon, another Memon brother who was arrested in
the case, was hanged in 2015.

At least 250 persons were killed and hundreds were injured when 12 blasts ripped through Mumbai on March 12, 1993.

With inputs from PTI