Brit commits suicide to stay out of the hands of IS

rojava - The 20-year-old Briton Ryan Lock, who along with Kurdish forces in Syria fighting Islamic State, has deprived himself of life to prevent it from falling alive into the hands of the terrorist army.

Lock, who had no military experience, struggled in an offensive anti-IS forces to recapture the northern Syrian city of Raqqa. The city is considered the capital of the Islamic State.

The family of Lock was last December message from Syria that he had died in the fighting. Now it appears that he committed suicide because he did not want IS used as a propaganda tool confirms Locks father to British media.

Last Tuesday by dozens of pro-Kurdish fighters during a ceremony in the Kurdish city of Rojava goodbye to Lock. After that his body be handed over to the British consulate.