Watch: Iraq police detain 12-yr-old ISIS bomber, strip suicide vest off his body
Kirkuk, Baghdad: An ISIS child suicide bomber was stripped off his explosive vest and detained by Iraqi officials, moments before it was detonated. The incident was captured on camera by an unidentified person.
According to a report in the Daily Mail, the boy, who was wearing a Barcelona shirt, started crying after he was stopped and arrested by the police in Baghdad's Kirkuk city.
The video footage shows Iraqi officials taking off the boy's clothes and trying to remove his suicide vest. A policeman then succeeds in removing the vest, while two officers drag the boy to a safer place, before detonating the belt.
Police believe that the boy was told by ISIS terrorists to blow up near a Shia mosque.
In their recent propaganda videos, ISIS has been portraying children as suicide bombers and terrorists.
In its statement, Europol, the law enforcement agency of Europe, said that these ISIS children are of 'particular concern', especially to the Western countries which have been the target of the terror group in the recent times.
Earlier this year, Quilliam, a UK-based think tank released a detailed report titled 'Children of Islamic State', which reveals how ISIS recruits children and then gives them jihad training by indoctrinating them at school, and sometimes at home too. These children are provided with rigorous training to become lethal fighters of the terror group. They are then infiltrated into the terror group's caliphates.
The report also focuses on how these jihadi children are inculcated with extremists values since their birth or when they are too small to distinguish between right and wrong. Tagged 'blank slate' by militants, these kids are provided with extreme martial arts training.
The arrest comes barely a day after a 12-year-old suicide bomber struck at a wedding party in Turkey, killing at least 50 people and injuring hundreds. The rising incidents of children being involved in suicide bombings has sparked outrage among people.
