Two Kenyan university students who went missing days ago have claimed that they’ve joined Islam state group in Syria.
The girls who disappeared last Wednesday from their homes in Kenyan capital Nairobi have confirmed to their relatives through social media that they are in Syria. According to Kenyan local newspaper The Standard, the two friends Salwa Abdalla and Twafiqa Dahir who are residents of Nairobi’s South C Estate left their homes on Wednesday afternoon and have been missing since then.
The two were students at University of Nairobi and Kenyatta University respectively before their departure. If there case is confirmed there will be the first Kenyan nationals who joined Islamic state fighting in Syria. Their parents described their daughters as disciplined children and who had very few friends.
“I received the first message at 9.28 p.m. when she informed me that she had arrived in Syria. We finished chatting at 9.47 p.m. She promised to get back to me on Monday after buying a new phone and getting a home to stay at,” the cousin, who identified herself as Rahama Abnasir said.
John Chege tweeted what he claims to be a message from Twafiqa announcing her arrival in Syria. “A message from the one of the two Kenyan missing girls highlighted on TV yesterday… seems they joined ISIS in Syria,” he captioned a screen shot of the message.
