U.K. Teen Who Joined Islamic State Was Killed by Airstrike, Family’s Lawyer Says Kadiza Sultana ran away with two friends over a year ago to live in Syria By Alexis Flynn
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Of around 850 Britons believed by authorities to have made their way to Syria and Iraq, more than 50 are women, say police.
LONDON—A British schoolgirl who ran away to Syria to join Islamic State is believed to have died in an airstrike, her family’s lawyer said Thursday.
Seventeen-year-old Kadiza Sultana made headlines last spring when she and two of her friends from an east London high school left their homes to marry fighters for the extremist group in Raqqa, the Syrian city that it controls.
Ms. Sultana’s family were told of her death “weeks ago,” by their own sources, said Tasnime Akunjee, the family’s lawyer.
“Her body was pulled from the rubble of a building hit by a bomb dropped from a Russian plane,” said Mr. Akunjee in a telephone interview.
It hadn’t been possible to verify whether she had died, he added. The family had informed authorities, he said, but they haven’t received any information on Ms. Sultana’s status in response, said Mr. Akunjee.
The U.K. Foreign Office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
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