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Video emerges of three UK schoolgirls who went to Syria | Video emerges of three UK schoolgirls who went to Syria |
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New footage of three UK schoolgirls en route to Syria, where it is believed they joined Islamic State, has been released by a Turkish news website. | |
It apparently shows a man helping Amira Abase, Shamima Begum and Kadiza Sultana into a car in south-eastern Turkey. | |
On Thursday, Turkey's foreign ministry said a man had been arrested for allegedly helping the trio. | |
Mevlut Cavusoglu said the man was an intelligence worker in the coalition against Islamic State militants. | Mevlut Cavusoglu said the man was an intelligence worker in the coalition against Islamic State militants. |
Shamima, Amira, who are both 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16 - all pupils at Bethnal Green Academy in east London - left their homes on 17 February. | |
The GCSE students flew to Turkey from Gatwick with Turkish Airlines and are believed to have entered Syria within days, probably to join Islamic State extremists. | The GCSE students flew to Turkey from Gatwick with Turkish Airlines and are believed to have entered Syria within days, probably to join Islamic State extremists. |
CCTV images have shown the teenagers waiting at a bus station in Istanbul on the day they arrived in the country. | |
They are thought to have been driven to a border crossing point by people smugglers before being met there by IS militants. | |
About 20 women and girls are thought to have gone to Syria from the UK in the past year, probably to join militant groups. | About 20 women and girls are thought to have gone to Syria from the UK in the past year, probably to join militant groups. |