In February, three British teenage girls left England to join Isis in Syria, and each have not been seen since a security camera caught them on film at the airport. According to a new report in The Guardian, two of the girls have gone on to marry Isis fighters, and were each allowed to tell their families.

One of the teenagers reportedly told their family via telephone, while the other got in touch with their family on a social media platform. The girls who fled are Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Amira Abase, 15, but The Guardian has not named the married pair as the request of their families.

The newspaper reports:

Their families are said be be distraught at the news and have been clinging to the hope their daughters would want to come home. The schoolgirls say that they have been separated and have been living apart for several weeks, in and around Raqqa, Syria – an Isis stronghold. The two schoolgirls have been living with the men whom they married in a ceremony approved by Isis authorities. The two schoolgirls are understood to have been given an effective "catalogue" of men deemed suitable by Isis for marriage. They then made their picks from those presented to them. The teenagers who married are believed to have been wed to older men, in their 20s.

News of the marriages follows a video posted by the Daily Telegraph on Friday night, which claims to show the girls shopping in Syria, with a gun-toting woman leading them.

However, the families's solicitor, Tasnime Akunjee, said of the footage, which was filmed eight weeks ago: "The families think the video is unlikely to be them. All three are living apart and those who are married are under the aegis of their husbands and are unlikely to be under the aegis of some woman leader."

Akunjee has now explained that the families are grieving at the news of the marriages, saying: "It has caused a lot of distress. It entrenches their lives in Syria, rather than in Britain. It erodes significantly hopes that they will come back."

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