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A WILTSHIRE mother says she has lost track of two daughters taken to Libya by their Libyan father nearly five years ago.

Tanya Borg, of Pewsey, has been fighting to get Angel El Zubaidy, 19, and her eight-year-old sister, back to Britain since her estranged husband Mohammed El Zubaidy left them with his mother in Tripoli in 2015.

She took High Court action in London shortly after her daughters vanished.

Judges have twice jailed El Zubaidy, 41, who has lived in Wood Green, north London, since returning to England alone, for breaching orders to get his daughters back.

El Zubaidy, who left jail in November after completing his latest term, has told judges that he does not know where his daughters are and cannot get them back to Britain.

Earlier this year Ms Borg also took legal action in Libya after travelling to Tripoli.

She saw her children briefly during her visit.

But her lawyer says they disappeared after a Libyan judge ordered their grandmother to produce them at a court hearing and their whereabouts are now unknown.

Ms Borg, who was born in Malta and met El Zubaidy two decades ago, says she is heartbroken and not sure what to do next.

"I'm pretty much back to square one," she said.

"It's very complicated.

"I'm not sure what I can do next.

"I'm talking to my lawyers."

She added: "Their father is in control. He has all the power. He could get them back. I beg him to get them home."

Lawyer Pam Sanghera, who represents Ms Borg and is based at Charles Strachan Solicitors, said mother and daughters were briefly reunited earlier this year in Libya.

But she said Ms Borg's daughters vanished after a Libyan judge ordered their grandmother to produce them.

"The grandmother failed to produce the children at court and since then, has not been contactable and has left her family home," she said.

"The children's whereabouts in Libya are therefore unknown to their mother.

"She has made extensive inquiries in Libya to track down her children to no avail."

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