By Bill Tong
Authorities detained a 15-year-old girl from Cape Town, South Africa, at the city's airport after receiving information she was leaving the country to join ISIS, South African State Security Minister David Mahlobo announced.
"We are still conducting further investigation. The girl over the past period has been using technology on social media platforms interacting with strange people and reading material that suggested she expressed an interest in joining a terrorist group called ISIS," he is reported saying.
Police and airport security located the girl on a Johannesburg-bound flight, and "we got our agencies to secure all the important exit points in the country. We got her at Cape Town International Airport," Mahlobo said.
ISIS, or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, has since their vicious campaigns last summer have started recruiting foreigners, some no even being Muslim, from places like Facebook or Twitter.
"It is not clear how the girl was recruited or how the airfare was arranged," he said.
The girl was released and sent back to her family.
"The recruitment and radicalization of particularly young people to take part in acts of terror is a growing global concern and local law enforcement agencies will continue to work hard in clamping these from materializing," the minister said in a statement Monday.
Authorities detained a 15-year-old girl from Cape Town, South Africa, at the city's airport after receiving information she was leaving the country to join ISIS, South African State Security Minister David Mahlobo announced.
"We are still conducting further investigation. The girl over the past period has been using technology on social media platforms interacting with strange people and reading material that suggested she expressed an interest in joining a terrorist group called ISIS," he is reported saying.
Police and airport security located the girl on a Johannesburg-bound flight, and "we got our agencies to secure all the important exit points in the country. We got her at Cape Town International Airport," Mahlobo said.
ISIS, or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, has since their vicious campaigns last summer have started recruiting foreigners, some no even being Muslim, from places like Facebook or Twitter.
"It is not clear how the girl was recruited or how the airfare was arranged," he said.
The girl was released and sent back to her family.
"The recruitment and radicalization of particularly young people to take part in acts of terror is a growing global concern and local law enforcement agencies will continue to work hard in clamping these from materializing," the minister said in a statement Monday.