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LeftishBrit

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Mon Mar 9, 2015, 05:52 PM Mar 2015

Missing Syria girls' families criticize police over letter [View all]

Relatives of three London schoolgirls believed to be in Syria have criticised police for not passing on "vital" information before they disappeared.

They say they might have been able to intervene if they had known one of the girls' friends was in Syria and that police had spoken to the trio about it.

Shamima Begum and Amira Abase, both 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16, were each given a letter for their parents, but hid it...

Relatives have criticised detectives for not going to them directly with what they believe was vital information...


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31766328

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