Dramatic moment ISIS would-be child suicide bomber is stripped of his explosives belt by police in Iraq (Photos & Video)
A boy would-be suicide
bomber dressed in Barcelona football jersey was apprehended in the northern
Iraqi city of Kirkuk before he was able to detonate his explosives belt, Iraqi
police said Monday.
Local television footage
aired on Kurdistan 24 TV shows a group of police officers holding the young boy
aged about 12 or 13 in a number 10 Lionel Messi jersey, while two men are seen
cutting off a belt of explosives. After they remove the belt, the boy is seen
being rushed into a police truck and driven away.
According to Kirkuk
police department spokesman Col. Avrasiya Kamil Wai, who spoke to The
Associated Press, the boy was apprehended on Sunday night, less than
an hour after a suicide bomb attack on a Shiite mosque in the city.
"The boy claimed during interrogation that
he had been kidnapped by masked men who put the explosives on him and sent him
to the area," said Kirkuk intelligence official Brig. Chato Fadhil Humadi.
The boy was displaced
from Islamic State-held city of Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, by recent
military operations in the area. He arrived in Kirkuk a week ago, Humadi added.
The boy’s name is known to the police.
Kirkuk, an oil rich city
in Iraq's north has seen a rise in ethnic tensions following the Islamic State
group's blitz across northern and western Iraq in 2014.
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Source: AP
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