It was announced in the city of Verulam, Durban, South Africa, that the Islamic activist Yusif Deedat, son of the great preacher Ahmed Deedat, had died from wounds he sustained after an unidentified man shot him in the back in the head on Wednesday morning.
In a statement today, Friday, the son of the Islamic activist, Rais, said that his father died this afternoon in St. Ann's Hospital in Verulam, where he was in intensive care as a result of his critical injury.
The statement added that his family and friends were at the side of his bed when he passed away at noon today, and the family also expressed in a statement to the Island Net a copy of it "its deep gratitude for the support they received from the family, friends and society."
Funeral prayers for him will be held in the Ferulam Wake Street mosque after the dawn prayers tomorrow, Saturday, local time, and the body will be transferred to his last resting place in the city cemetery.
Youssef Deedat was hospitalized in a critical condition, after an unidentified man shot him in the back in the head in Durban, South Africa.
According to Prem Balram, a spokesman for the South African first aid unit, Yusuf, 66, was heading towards the "Verulam" family court with his wife, when a person carrying a firearm approached and shot him from behind, and the motives for the attack have not yet been revealed.