In a heartbreaking video that’s been shared online, an Iraqi soldier allegedly removes an explosive suicide belt from the waist of a frightened seven-year-old boy — before the bomb could harm him or anyone else.
The video, claimed to have been released by the Iraqi army in the city of Mosul, in northern Iraq, suggests the boy had fled from the radical Islamic extremist group ISIS.
Dutch journalist Brenda Stoter Boscolo tweeted the video out in March. “ISIS strapped explosives around this little boy’s (7) waist,” Stoter Boscolo wrote.
Watch the video in her tweet below.
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“Speaking to the camera, the soldier explains that the boy, thought to be called Uday, says he was sent by his uncle with instructions to target ‘the army,'” Overpassesforamerica.com noted.
The boy was apparently found with a group of refugees. He was described as standing alone and clutching his stomach in fright.
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