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Austria: Two teenage girls went to fight alongside jihadists in Syria

Alarming new reports indicate that one of the girls is dead

Newsroom September 15 10:50

16-year old Samra Kesinovic and 15 year old Sabina Selimovi left their families and homes in Vienna, Austria on the 10th of April of 2004
in order to travel to Syria with the sole purpose to fight alongside the jihadist Islamic state.

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Despite their families pleas and the efforts of Interpol, the girls were unable to be found. However, through social media they posted many pictures of their new life.

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In some of the images the teenage girls appear with Kalashnikovs in their hands, while on others they posed surrounded by armed men.
Previously the girls supported that they had gone in Syria for a “holy war”, but the alarming new information which show the “light” of publicity on Monday indicates that one of the two girls is dead.

So far, the Austrian government has not confirmed the information, nor which of the two girls died, however, according to the country’s media “the parents of one of the girls were informed that their daughter is dead.”
Moreover, the causes that led the two girls from Bosnia going to Syria are unknown, although as became known after their disappearance, they were in contact with young man from Chechnya and had also visited a mosque in Vienna.

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