12-year-old Yazidi girl escapes from ISIS militants using sleeping pills
The 12-year-old Yazidi girl who escaped ISIS fighters by putting sleeping pills in their tea with the Yazidi member of the Iraqi parliament Vian Dakhil.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – MP Vian Dakhil said yesterday, that a 12-year-old Yazidi girl, who was held captive by ISIS, was able to escape from an ISIS prison after putting sleeping pills in her captors’ tea.
Dakhil said in a press statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “The girl was captured by the ISIS militants, along with her 17-year-old aunt, and held for nearly four months before they managed to escape.”
The Yazidi MP said that the young girl had asked the ISIS fighters for pills to help them sleep, but then she put them into the militants’ tea. As their captors slept, both women managed to escape to a nearby Kurdish-held territory.
The younger of the two escapees was reunited with her mother and one of her sisters, however, two of her sisters are still held as prisoners by ISIS.