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| Brighton teenager killed in Syria | Brighton teenager killed in Syria |
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| An 18-year-old British man has died in Syria, the Foreign Office has said. | An 18-year-old British man has died in Syria, the Foreign Office has said. |
| Sussex Police said they received information on Monday that the man had been killed "in recent weeks". He is understood to be Abdullah Deghayes, from Brighton. | |
| A spokesman said the circumstances of the death "remain unclear" and officers were in contact with the man's family. | A spokesman said the circumstances of the death "remain unclear" and officers were in contact with the man's family. |
| The Foreign Office said: "We are aware of the death of a British national and are urgently looking into it." | |
| Speaking to the BBC's Ellie Price, Mr Deghayes's father, Abubaker Deghayes, said he had thought his son was in Libya and he did not know of his trip to Syria. | |
| He said he had not seen his son for "two or three months", but he now believed he had died in Syria. | |
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| About 400 Britons are thought to have gone to Syria in the past two years, with an estimated 20 having died. | |
| In the past few months counter-terrorism investigators have expressed concerns about British jihadists travelling to Syria to learn how to make bombs and fire guns. | |
| In February, Abdul Waheed Majeed, from Crawley, died when he drove a truck bomb at the gates of Aleppo Prison. | |
| The father of three travelled to Syria last July as a driver for a nationwide aid convoy, taking supplies to refugee camps along the border with Turkey. | |
| He spent six months in the region, sending his family regular reports of construction work he was undertaking to improve camp sanitation. | |
| More than 30 people have been arrested this year as police step up operations to stop British nationals from fighting in Syria. |