Kadiza and Shamima are British-born Bangladeshis, speak English with London accents and also speak Bangla, according to Mail Online.
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Kadiza Sullana, 17, left her home in Bethnal Green in early 2015 to travel to the Middle East with two other teenage girls.
The three schoolgirls known as “jihadi brides” who fled to Syria attended Bethnal Green Academy.
ITV News reported Sultana has become disillusioned with life under IS and was planning to escape and return to Britain when she was killed.
Khanom said: “We were expecting this in a way”.
The schoolgirl had been living in Syria after leaving her home in East London during the Easter 2015 school holidays to join Islamic State.
Kadiza: ‘You know the borders are closed right now, so how am I going to get out?
Tonight ITV News will broadcast interviews given by Kadiza’s sister, Halima, during the tense months when the desperate family hoped to secure her return to the UK.
Mr Akunjee said the teenager had grown disillusioned and wanted to leave IS and return to the United Kingdom – but had decided not to risk being captured and face a “brutal” punishment from the terror group.
“In the week where she was thinking of these issues a young Austrian girl had been caught trying to leave ISIS territory and was by all reports beaten to death publicly, so – given that that was circulated in the region as well as outside – I think Kadiza took that as a bad omen and decided not to take the risk”.
Speaking to ITV news, her sister Halima Khanom told the channel that Sultana was in a “better place”.
An estimated 800 Britons are believed to have left the United Kingdom to join IS or other militant groups fighting in Syria and Iraq.
Last year, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan Howe told MPs the Bethnal Green trio would be unlikely to be prosecuted if they returned to Britain, unless there was evidence they had committed any specific crimes while with IS.
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The other two girls are believed to still be in Raqqa.
