Austrian teen who joined jihadists in Syria thought to have been killed: report

Two Austrian girls reportedly ran away from home in April to join ISIS in Syria — and one might already be dead.

Samra Kesinovic, 16, and Sabina Selimovic, 15, vanished from their homes in Vienna and started posting troubling images of themselves online, according to Austrian media.

These pictures show the girls in burkas standing beside terrorists clutching Kalashnikov rifles.

Many fear these images are being used to recruit other young girls to become jihadists.

Alexander Marakovits, spokesman for the country’s Interior Ministry, said that they have received intelligence that indicates one of the girls might have been killed during the ongoing fighting in the region, reported The Salzburger News.

Government officials have not officially confirmed this claim.

"We also have this information and have checked it, but cannot say with absolute certainty that it is true. But the parents have been informed their daughter could be dead," Marakovits told the German-language paper, as translated by The Local.

It is not known which teen is thought to have been killed.

The girls come from Bosnian refugee families who settled in Austria after the Bosnian War of the early '90s, reported Central European News.

Both girls were born in Austria. Authorities are investigating how the pair was persuaded to flee Austria for Syria. The Daily Express reports that up to 130 people from Austria are thought to be fighting abroad with Islamic terrorists.