(BBC) It was too dangerous to send British officials to rescue Shamima Begum’s baby son in Syria, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.
The child died in a refugee camp after his mother, who joined IS in 2015, was stripped of UK citizenship.
The boy was a UK citizen — but Mr Hunt told the BBC that any rescuers’ lives would have been at risk in the camp.
“The mother chose to leave a free country to join a terrorist organisation,” he said.
Speaking on the Andrew Marr Show, the foreign secretary confirmed that Jarrah, who was three weeks old, was a British citizen even though his mother was not.
