‘Please come home to us,’ family tells girl believed going to Syria

UK police said 15-year-old Shamima Begum and two other London girls took a flight to Istanbul from London Gatwick Airport on Tuesday.

Their families have reported them missing, and London’s Metropolitan Police say the girls are believed to be heading to Syria, where militant groups and government forces are locked in a war, and parts of which have been taken over by the Islamist terror group ISIS.

“It is an extremely dangerous place, and we have seen reports of what life is like for them and how restricted their lives become,” he said.

CNN’s Laura Smith-Spark and Laura Perez Maestro contributed to this report.

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