IS ‘poster girl’ beaten to death after trying to escape terror group

A TEENAGE girl who ran away from her Austrian home to join IS has reportedly been killed after trying to flee the terrorist capital of Raqqa. 

Samra Kesinovic, 17, went to Syria in April 2014 with her 16-year-old friend Sabina Selimovic, where they became propaganda poster girls for the Islamist group.

Runaway pal Sabina

Now several Austrian newspapers are claiming Samra has been beaten to death, citing insider sources and an interview with a Tunisian woman who lived with the pair before escaping.


Speculation about the fate of the girls has been spreading ever since a United Nations official said earlier this year that one of the girls had definitely died in Syria.

Some reports suggest both are now dead, with the UN’s David Scharia saying: “Both were recruited by Islamic State. One was killed in the fighting in Syria, the other has disappeared.”

Authorities know that the two teenage girls initially travelled to the Turkish capital Ankara and then into the southern Turkish region of Adana.

Then they believe the two crossed into Syria by foot and then married IS fighters, with the two couples initially living in the same room. The Austrian government has so far refused to comment on individual cases.