12 students feared to have left Sudan to join militant groups in Syria, Iraq

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Monday 29 Jun 2015 - 13:48 Makkah mean time-12-9-1436 Google image Khartoum (IINA) – Twelve students from Sudan’s University of Medical Sciences and Technology (UMST) are feared to have left the country for Turkey in order to infiltrate into Syria and Iraq to join the militant groups there, according to media reports on Sunday. Local media reported that 12 medical students, including three women, who disappeared from their families, are believed to have left Sudan for Turkey at dawn on Friday through Khartoum airport. Seven of the missing students are British, two Canadian, one American and two are Sudanese nationals, one of them is holding a diplomatic passport. All are understood to be of Sudanese origin. Well-informed sources reported that the Turkish authorities have arrested some of them. AB/IINA