Iraqi police say a juvenile would-be suicide bomber was apprehended in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk before he was able to detonate his explosive belt.
Local television footage aired on Kurdistan 24 TV shows a group of police officers holding the young boy 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.
The would-be boy bomber in Kirkuk was apprehended last night, less than an hour after a suicide bomb attack on a Shiite mosque in the city, Kirkuk police department spokesman Col. Avrasiya Kamil Wais says.
Still taken from local TV footage, showing a child being restrained by security forces, holding his arms out-stretched as another man cuts off a belt of explosives, August. 21, 2016, in Kirkuk, Iraq. (Kurdistan 24 TV news via AP)
“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,” says Kirkuk intelligence official Brig. Chato Fadhil Humadi.
According to Humadi, the boy was displaced from the 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 says. The boy’s name is known to the police.
— AP
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