LAWYER: Two of the three British teenage schoolgirls who fled to join ISIS are already widows
Two of the three British schoolgirls who fled the country to join Islamic State have already been widowed, a lawyer for their families told Vice News.
London teenagers Shamima Begum, Kadiza Sultana, and Amira Abase, travelled to Syria in February 2015.
Earlier this week lawyer Tasnime Akunjee told the LBC radio station the chances of the trio ever escaping ISIS were "very small."
Akunjee told Vice that Abase had married an Australian who was killed in combat and that Sultana's husband had also died.
He also revealed that during the last contact the teenagers had made with their families in the UK they had told them not to worry.
"They said they're healthy, Russian bombs have gone off within 500 metres of them, and if they're not in contact don't worry," Akunjee said.
The solicitor also told the BBC's Today programme that last he knew the trio were in ISIS' self-declared capital of Raqqa in Syria, which is regularly bombed by both US-led coalition forces as well as Russian warplanes.
"They are in Raqqa, or were there certainly up until a few weeks ago. Contact has been lost with them for some weeks now, so to be honest we have no idea what their status is at the moment.
Abase, Begum, and Sultana all attended Bethnal Green Academy in east London before disappearing last February.
Britain's education secretary Nicky Morgan chose the school as the venue to announce a new government anti-terror initiative.