South Africa prevents girl trying to join Islamic State

[WorldNews]

By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South African authorities stopped a 15-year-old girl believed to be travelling to join Islamic State from taking a flight in Cape Town, the state security ministry said on Tuesday, the country's first known detention linked to the militant group. The ministry said in a statement it was investigating whether Islamic State, which has overrun large areas of Syria and Iraq, had a recruitment network in South Africa. The teenager had tried to take a domestic flight on Sunday to Johannesburg, South Africa's main international hub. The ministry did not give her name or say where she was heading after that, but the Star newspaper reported she had been planning to fly to Turkey before travelling by road to join Islamic State in Syria.

 

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