The relatives of the family of 12 who fled to Syria to join ISIS has claimed that the eldest member of the family was tricked into joining Islamic State.
It is said that Shalim Hussain has expressed that his 75-year-old father, Muhammed Abdul Mannan was isolated from the other family members and were put into a van which was operated by ISIS at his hotel in Istanbul, Turkey, before taken over the border to Syria.
Shalim Hussain said, “They were supposed to stay two days and then come back to England. On the second night, some people came to the hotel. We don’t know who, exactly... They were taking them downstairs, separately, not in groups, and at the last moment my parents were confused.”
During an interview with ITV news, Hussain said,
“My dad is a very old man. He’s 75. He’s poorly. He doesn’t need this. He doesn’t want to be in that country.”
