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2 Telanganites try to join ISIS, caught
Reportedly, two youngsters from Telangana, one working in the US and another in Saudi Arabia, were caught while trying to join the ISIS in Syria.
According to the sources, the two were arrested in Turkey and jailed for 4 months and deported in October. TS police and intelligence officials counselled them and are keeping a watch over them. Gufran Mohiuddin from Warangal and Hamid-ur-Rahman from First Lancer, Hyderabad, had travelled to Turkey and were trying to enter Syria when they were arrested.
Gufran was working in Saudi Arabia, and Hamid had gone to US. The latter called his family from Jizan in Saudi Arabia to inform them that he would like to join the ISIS. They had completed their engineering from a famous college in 2012. Their friend said they got radicalized by watching videos online.
