Family of four leaves Maldives ‘on Jihad’
A family of four has reportedly left the Maldives to Syria last week. The husband and wife, both 28 years old, took their children, a 6-year-old and a 3-year-old, with them.
30 Aug 2015, 9:00 AM
A family of four has reportedly left the Maldives to Syria last week. The husband and wife, both 28 years old, took their children, a 6-year-old and a 3-year-old, with them.
The family is from northern Shaviyani Atoll Fokaidhoo Island, and traveled to Syria via Sri Lanka and Turkey, said Ahmed Asif, a member of the island council.
“The couple’s whereabouts are not known, no one has heard from them since their departure. But even when they left the island last week, the people of this island suspected they had plans to travel to Syria for jihad,” Asif said.
The father has been identified as Mohamed Sodiq.
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