CCTV images of the three British girls who left for Turkey nearly two weeks ago at Istanbul bus station, from where they travelled to Urfa near the Syrian border (BBC/A Haber)
Three missing British schoolgirls who fled the UK to join Isis are believed to have crossed into Syria and are staying in Raqqa.
Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Amira Abase, 15, went missing after they boarded a flight from Gatwick to Istanbul last month.
The schoolgirls, from Bethnal Green Academy in east London, are thought to have crossed the border into Syria not far from the Turkish town of Kilis, Sky News sources claim.
"We are told by... good sources within the city of al Raqqa that they are there, that they are safe,” Sky News reported over the weekend.
"They're now apparently in a house that is owned or controlled - or at least hosted by - a British girl who had been in contact with them through the internet, and had brought them through Turkey and into Syria.”
It is thought that the unidentified 15-year-old British girl – friends with the latest three missing pupils – may be the Bethnal Green pupil who went missing in December, the Daily Mail reported.
Before reaching the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa, the trio were captured on CCTV last week in Istanbul.
In the footage the three young girls, wearing heavy winter clothing and carrying sports bags and holdalls waiting for a bus in the early hours of 18 February, less than 24 hours after they had left their London homes.
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