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Government rules out helping runaway teenager back home
THE government appears to have ruled out helping a runaway London teenager return to Britain after she finally surfaced this week in a Syrian refugee camp.
Shamima Begum went missing four years ago aged just 15. The schoolgirl from Bethnal Green disappeared with two friends and joined Isis militants in Syria.
On Wednesday The Times tracked her down to a camp where she told its reporter that she wanted to return home and was nine-months’ pregnant.
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