A TEENAGE girl who ran away from her Austrian home to join IS has reportedly
been killed after trying to flee the terrorist capital of Raqqa.
Samra Kesinovic, 17, went to Syria in April 2014 with her 16-year-old friend
Sabina Selimovic, where they became propaganda poster girls for the Islamist
group.
Now several Austrian newspapers are claiming Samra has been beaten to death,
citing insider sources and an interview with a Tunisian woman who lived with
the pair before escaping.
Speculation about the fate of the girls has been spreading ever since a United
Nations official said earlier this year that one of the girls had definitely
died in Syria.
Some reports suggest both are now dead, with the UN’s David Scharia saying:
“Both were recruited by Islamic State. One was killed in the fighting in
Syria, the other has disappeared.”
Authorities know that the two teenage girls initially travelled to the Turkish
capital Ankara and then into the southern Turkish region of Adana.
Then they believe the two crossed into Syria by foot and then married IS
fighters, with the two couples initially living in the same room.
The Austrian government has so far refused to comment on individual cases.