British police are asking for help in locating three missing London schoolgirls believed to be on their way to Syria.

The three friends, two aged 15 and one 16, caught a flight to Istanbul earlier in the week, without telling their families.

The girls were pupils at the Bethnal Green Academy.

Security forces say about 600 British Muslims have travelled to Syria to join the conflict there.

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