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Shock, agony for families of missing students

Salwa Abdalla (20)  at the their South C home 18-05-2015 Nairobi. The girl is alledged to have travelled to Syria to possibly join the ISIS. The mother says she received a mobile telephone text message from one of the girls's relative living in Namanga from the two asking the relatives not worry that they are safe in Syria. The parents wants the government to help them bring the girls home. PHOTO:Elvis Ogina/STANDARD]

Families of two young women suspected to have travelled to Syria to join the murderous Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) voiced their agony yesterday, as it was revealed that yet another student had gone missing.

A friend of Salwa Abdalla, one of the girls said to have joined ISIS, is also said to have disappeared a month ago.

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