Young Iraqi boy wearing Lionel Messi's FC Barcelona outfit caught with a suicide vest

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A young Iraqi boy carrying a suicide vest in Kirkuk, in Baghdad was spotted in a TV footage. The 12-year old who was wearing an ‘FC Barcelona’ jersey with Lionel Messi’s name written behind informed that he was kidnapped by ISIS terrorists and was strapped by the vest and forced to attack.

Just an hour before another suicide bomber was spotted targeting the Shiite mosque in the city, it was reported that the boy had earlier fled from the Iraqi city of Mosul which is under the control of ISIS. The increasing number of children exploited for terrorist attacks is a major concern for the country; two other bombers also gave away their lives and blew themselves recently as a part of terrorism.

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Speaking about the matter Kirkuk intelligence officer Chato Fadhil Humadi said that 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'. Just a day before, a child suicide bomber was responsible for killing 51 and injured 100 more during a wedding party in Turkey.

Previously, 13 teenagers were killed for watching an Asian Cup Football game between Iraq and Jordan in Mosul cause they do not support Football in ISIS-controlled regions.

The 12-year boy
The 12-year who was caught wearing a suicide vest

Last month four Syrian footballers were killed by ISIS militants as they do not support football and were also responsible for the Paris attacks last year which included a bomb attack near the Stade de Paris where a friendly match between France and Germany was going on.

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As per the reports of dailymail.co.uk, Tayyip Erdogan said it was likely that the terrorist group was behind the attack which saw a bomber, supposed to be aged between 12 and 14, blow up people dancing in the street at a party few days ago in Gaziantep, a city in Turkey.

He also stated that the blast near the Syria border was also the outcome of a suicide bomber. “(The blast) was the result of a suicide bomber who either detonated (the bomb) or others detonated it.”

What’s even worse, the ISIS has launched an app teaching the Arabic alphabet to its ‘cubs of the caliphate’- using cartoon images of weaponry. It also uses pictures of tanks, ammunition, and swords to make children memorise certain letters in a learning cause.

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