'Don't look for me, I'm in Syria' - girl writes to her devastated mom

Two Kenyan families are ripped apart by the lure

of ISIS after receiving a text from their missing

daughters apparently now thousands of miles from

home to say: "Don't look for me, I'm in Syria."

one of the girls wrote to her mum. The woman

said her 20 year old daughter Tawfiqua (right)

left home on May 13th and never returned. After

searching for her for 4 days, she got an alarming

message supposedly sent by her daughter, telling

her not to look for her anymore as she was in

Syria. She had left Kenya with her friend Salwa

Abdulla (left).

Tawfiqua's mum told CNN that Tawfiqua came

home on that May 13th with Salwa after their

day's lessons at a nearby Islamic school. Tawfiqua

then told her she wanted to see her friend off

but never returned. When she contacted Salwa's

parents, they also said they hadn't see their

daughter. They began searching for the girls only

to get a heartbreaking text four days later which

read

"Assalam aleykum cuz, how are you? Am

now in Syria ... Tell everyone not to look

for me am doing very fine."

"When I received the message, I was

shocked," Tawfiqua's mum told CNN. "I

fainted, and the entire family, who were

with me, was also shocked and cried."

Tawfiqua and Salwa, who were both university

students, are described by their families and

friends as kind, quiet and devout Muslims. How

they got to Syria is a mystery.