Two more German women Linda Wenze 'identified among group held in city of Mosul Iraq'
Two more German women 'identified among group held in Iraq'
Ms Wenzel is being held in an Iraqi prison amid unconfirmed claims she had a baby with her when she was captured by Iraqi special forces last week.
A total of four German citizens are among a group of women who were captured by Iraqi forces in the Iraqi city of Mosul last week, a foreign ministry source said on Tuesday.
The foreign ministry on Monday said that two women were among those seized, including a 16-year-old teenager, Linda Wenzel, who had run away from her home in the state of Saxony last year.
Iraqi forces image showing 16-year-old German Linda Wentzel
The source on Tuesday said that two others had now been confirmed as German citizens by consular officials who visited them.
German prosecutors on Monday said they were investigating the teenager on suspicion of membership in a foreign terrorist organisation, alongside the three others.
Linda Wentzel, aged 16, orignally from Pulsnitz near Dresden in Germany, who ran away from home last year to join ISIS and has been captured in the ruins of the retaken Iraqi city of Mosul.
German newspaper Die Welt reported in Wednesday editions that two of the women came from the city of Mannheim in the southern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg - a woman born in Morocco and her adult daughter.
The fourth woman was born in Russia's Chechnya region and was last registered in Detmold, in the state of North-Rhine Westphalia, the paper said.
It said German authorities were seeking the return of the four women, who were captured on July 13 and 14, and are currently being held in Baghdad.
The group of 20 women were captured in Mosul by Iraqi forces when they retook the Islamic State stronghold.
