Disenchanted with rosy promises of a life with the ISIS, three British girls escape

#ISIS #Mosul #britishschoolgirls #Turkey Three British schoolgirls had sneaked out of Britain in February and had entered the land of the ISIS via Turkey and, it is believed that the girls, disenchanted with the rosy life promised by the ISIS through propaganda through social media have escaped from Mosul.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 13 May 2015.

The British Foreign Office in investigating reports that three British schoolgirls are on the run after escaping from Islamic State in Iraq. The Home Secretary has declined to say whether the girls would be allowed back into the UK.
The information is apparently from an Iraqi blogger who had posted on 5 May that the ISIS terror group had been searching "all its checkpoints" for three British girls who are "married to ISIL militants". Although their identities have not been disclosed, it is believed that they were the same three who were recorded on CCTV in Turkey on 18 February.
The girls were later smuggled across the border and were staying in Raqqa. It seems they disappeared after telling their families they would be out for the day. They had stolen family jewelry to finance their journey. Two of the girls were aged 15 and one was aged 16 – all of them were students of London's Bethnal Green Academy.
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