British teenagers (Photo : CCTV video)
A CCTV video has emerged regarding the three British teenage girls who have been missing since February and are feared to have joined the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants.
According to a report by BBC, the footage retrieved showed the three girls at a bus station in Istanbul, Turkey while waiting for the vehicle that is believed to have taken them to the Syrian border, which they were reportedly seen to have been helped by people smugglers in order to cross.
These three teenagers did not seem to avoid the CCTV cameras as they were shown dragging their bags with them at night. They reportedly bought tickets for the bus that would take them to the border but it was to arrive in 17 hours. They had to wait at an all-night waiting room.
They were again seen on the CCTV video getting on the bus at lunch time the next day. They appeared to have changed from wearing pants to long skirts when they were spotted in the second video.
These three girls were identified as Shamima Begum, Amira Abase, both 15 years old, and 16-year-old Kadiza Sultana. They were last seen boarding a Turkish Airlines plane form the Gatwick Airport in London last February 17. These three teenage girls are said to be studying at a great school in Eastern Europe and told their parents they were just going for a day out with friends.
However, they never returned home and the motive of them travelling to Syria still is a mystery because they were described as straight A students and there was no reports of radicalization being spread in their school. Although there was one teenage girl also from the school they studied at who also traveled to Syria last December and this angle is being looked at by the United Kingdom Police.
Also according to reports by CNN, one of the girls contacted a woman named Aqsa Mahmood, who traveled to Syria in 2013 and left her home in Scotland to join the ISIS militants. She is accused of recruiting other teenage girls via social media sites.
Turkish officials are working closely with the UK Police but Turkey has become a popular gateway for young women travelling to Syria to join the extremist group. Reports suggest that at least 60 young teenagers traveled to Syria via Turkey as per figures recorded last year.
