(MENAFN- Arab News) KHARTOUM: Twelve students including British Canadian Sudanese and US citizens are feared to have left Khartoum for Turkey to try to join Daesh their university said on Sunday.
Another group of British students of Sudanese origin from the same private University of Medical Sciences and Technology traveled to Turkey in March and it is believed they crossed into Syria.
'We confirmed reports from multiple parties that 12 medical students at the university left for Turkey on Friday' the dean for students Ahmed Babikir told AFP.
Khartoum airport authorities confirmed the group had flown to Turkey and the students' families said they had not seen them since Friday and were unable to find their passports Babikir added.
'Logic says that they traveled to join the Daesh organization' Babikir said. Seven of the missing students are British two Canadian one American and two are Sudanese nationals he said.