Sunday, March 1, 2015

Three UK girls at Istanbul bus station

Posted by Anup Baral | march 1, 2015 :
According to BBC, three UK girls were at Istanbul bus stationto join Islamic State in Syria.

A New CCTV Footage shows three UK schoolgirls on the Turkish leg of what is believed to have been their journey to join Islamic State in Syria. Among three two girls Shamima Begum and Amira Abase is a 15 years old, and Kadiza Sultana is 16 yearsold who flew from London to Istanbul on 17 February. In CCTV Footage it clearly shows they are waiting at Bayrampasa bus station. Scotland Yard believes the Bethnal Green Academy students are now in Syria. They are thought to have been met at the border by IS militants. The BBC understands the girls waited in the offices of two bus companies at the station before taking a bus to Urfa, close to the Syrian border, on 18 February. From there, they are thought to have been driven to a border crossing point by people-smugglers.

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