Middle East: child suicide bombers

Written by David Fletcher 26 Aug 2016
Middle East: child suicide bombers

As reported in article 3 above, an IS child suicide bomber killed at least 54 at a Kurdish wedding party in Turkey. He was aged between 12 and 14. Turkish authorities said that a destroyed suicide vest was found at the scene of the bombing. They are investigating the possibility that militants could have placed the explosives on the child without his knowledge and detonated them remotely, or that a mentally disabled child was duped into carrying the device, a tactic seen elsewhere in the region. Also this week Iraqi police removed a bomb belt from a suicide bomber aged 14. Officials suggested he may have been drugged before being sent on his mission. See:

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