By Sebastian Murphy-bates For Mailonline
Published: 13:36 BST, 7 May 2019 | Updated: 16:02 BST, 7 May 2019
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Samia (pictured) claims she was kidnapped by Islamic State and held against her will after being duped into thinking that she would be helping children
The family of a woman who joined Islamic State say that she was tricked into thinking she'd be helping refugees and left mutilated by a drone strike.
Samia Hussein from Southall, West London, lost her left arm and half her breast in what is thought to have been a British or American attack on a town under the terrorists' control.
The former student was discovered alongside other UK citizens when the jihadists' last-remaining stronghold of Baghouz fell in March.
She is believed to be at the al-Hol camp, which is run by Kurdish forces in northern Syria, and while there called her family to tell her jihadists had kidnapped her.
A close relative says that the family are worried about her health, telling The Telegraph she fears that she'll never be let back into the UK.
'We need the Government to help her,' she said. 'She's British, she was born here and has a British passport and we want her to come back to this country.'
The camp also holds Shamima Begum, who left Bethnal Green in East London to join Islamic State when she was 15.
The family of Miss Hussein, who is now 25, say she was duped to stop studying and go to a camp in 2015 while living in Kenya.
Five years ago, she left the UK to study A-Levels in Nairobi and hoped to head to the capital's United States
