POLICE IN LONDON have arrested a teenage girl and a young woman on suspicion of an offence under the Terrorism Act.

Officers from the Metropolitan Police Counter-Terrorism Command arrested a 20-year-old woman and a 16-year-old girl on suspicion of attempting to travel to Syria to join a proscribed organisation – believed to be the so-called Islamic State.

They were arrested in central London at about 9pm on Sunday.

Both were taken into custody at a central London police station.

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Woman and girl arrested in London for trying to go to Syria to join IS

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