A Qatar Airways plane carrying a group of women linked to ISIS fighters and their children has arrived at Melbourne’s Tullamarine Airport.
The Melbourne plane landed about 5.30pm while another plane at Sydney’s International Airport carrying another so-called Isis bride landed about 5.45pm.
The cohort consists of four Australian women – grandmother Kawsar Abbas, 54, her two daughters Zahra Ahmad, 33, and former Sydney nursing student Zeinab Ahmed, 31, Janai Safar – and their nine children.
Kawsar and her family will land on Melbourne on Thursday on a Qatar Airway flight via Doha. She is accompanied by her brother, boxing coach Abraham Abbas.
It’s understood Kawsar and one of her two adult daughters will be arrested upon arrival and charged over serious allegations made by two women from the Yazidi community in Syria, The Australian reports.
Safar – who will touch down in Sydney with her son – is expected to be charged with offences related to entering or remaining in a declared terrorist area.
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