Australian teenager feared dead months after Islamic State attack on Syrian prison

Yusuf Zahab, who was taken to Syria when he was 11, was wounded in January during fighting between IS fighters and Kurdish-led forces at a makeshift prison

An Australian teenager is believed to have died in a Syrian prison holding Islamic State (IS) suspects, months after he begged the Australian government for assistance, his family and a leading rights group have said.

Yusuf Zahab was detained in Guweiran prison in Hasakah city alongside suspected IS members for more than three years when it was attacked by IS in January in an attempt to free its fighters.

During the fighting, an audio recording by Zahab begging for help made it outside the jail and was widely publicised.

"I got injured in my head and my hand," Zahab said at the time. "I lost a lot of blood … There's no doctors here, there's no one who can help me. I'm very scared. I need help. Please… [My] friends got killed in front of me, a 14-year-old, a 15-year-old… There's a lot of bodies, dead bodies, and there's a lot of injured people screaming from pain."
It is not clear when Zahab, who would have turned 18 in April, died.

To know more: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/syria-australia-teenager-yusuf-zahab-islamic-state-attack-prison

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