The report came from another woman who told an Austrian tabloid that she had once lived with Kesinovic and later managed to escape the terrorist enclave.
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Speculation about the fate of the girls has been spreading ever since a United Nations official said earlier this year that one of the girls had definitely died in Syria.
Her friend Sabina, who was 15 when she travelled to Syria, was thought to have been killed in fighting previous year.
The two girls later appeared on social media, carrying Kalashnikov rifles and surrounded by armed ISIS militants.
Samra Kesinovic, 17, and friend Sabina Selimovic hit the headlines after they fled their middle class homes in Austria and arrived in Syria in 2014.
It is believed the pair married ISIS fighters soon after arriving in Syria. She specified that after their arrival to Turkey, she and Kesinovic crossed the border to Syria on foot and settled in Raqqa with nothing more than the clothes on their backs.
One of the two teens who fled Austria previous year to become a “poster girl” for ISIS has been beaten to death after trying to escape the group’s Syrian stronghold of Raqqa.
Some reports suggest both are now dead, with the UN’s David Scharia saying: “Both were recruited by Islamic State”.
An Islamic preacher from Bosnia living in Vienna – Mirsad O, known by the Islamic name “Ebu Tejma” was allegedly responsible for their radicalisation.
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A note left behind said: “No point looking for us: see you in paradise…”
