U.K. TEEN WHO BECAME ‘JIHADI BRIDE’ REPORTED KILLED IN AIRSTRIKE

One of three London schoolgirls who travelled to an area of Syria controlled by ISIL to become “jihadi brides” is believed to have been killed in an airstrike, a lawyer for her family says.

Tasnime Akunjee told the BBC that Kadiza Sultana’s family had been told that she died in the ISIL stronghold of Raqqa several weeks ago. He said the family was “devastated.” He said the death has not been confirmed.

Sultana was 16 when she and classmates Shamima Begum and Amira Abase — both 15 — travelled to Syria in February 2015 without telling their families. Their distraught relatives made emotional public appeals for them to come back.

ITV News broadcast phone calls between Sultana and her sister in Britain, in which Sultana said she wanted to return to Britain but could see no way of escape. “I don’t have a good feeling. I feel scared,” Sultana said in one call.