Three London Schoolgirls Feared To Have Travelled To Syria To Join ISIS

FACE PIXELATED AT SOURCE Undated handout comp of stills taken from CCTV issued by the Metropolitan Police of (left to right) Kadiza Sultana,16, Shamima Begum,15 and an un-named 15-year-old at Gatwick airport, they are feared to have travelled to Syria via Turkey. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Friday February 20, 2015. See PA story POLICE Syria. Photo credit should read: Metropolitan Police/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.
Police are attempting to trace three East London schoolgirls who may have travelled to Syria to join Isis. Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and a third 15-year-old female whose parents have asked is not named were last seen on Tuesday morning when they told parents they would be out for the day.

But the trio, described by teachers at Bethnal Green Academy school as ‘straight-A students’, instead met and travelled to Gatwick Airport, where they boarded a Turkish Airlines flight that landed in Istanbul that evening. Authorities are concerned the three girls intend to go to Isis-controlled Syria to join the terror group

‘We are extremely concerned for the safety of these young girls and would urge anyone with information to come forward and speak to police,’ said Metropolitan Police Commander Richard Walton. ‘Our priority is the safe return of these girls to their families......READ MORE; METRO UK

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