ISIS Youngest suicide Bomber Attack Iraqi city of Samarra
ISIS Youngest suicide Bomber Attack Iraqi city of Samarra
Shocking pictures have emerged on social media showing what could be the ISIS’s youngest suicide bomber. The fresh faced boy has been named as Abu al-Hassan al-Shami, a Syrian fighter who appears to be no older than 14 years old.
In a photo series, entitled 'Battle of Vengeance for the Mother of the Believers (Aisha)', the youngster is thought to be one of two Syrian fighters, who carried out a suicide truck bombings in the Iraqi province of Salahuddin, Daily Mail reports.
He shown sitting in the driver’s seat of the large lorry filled with barrels of explosives.
A final image shows a huge explosion after the detonation of the lorry, killing him and a number of Iraqi security forces. The attack happened near the ancient Iraqi city of Samarra, currently still held by the Iraqi army.
It also shows a big ball of fire erupting into the orange sky, with pieces of shrapnel flying in all directions across the arid landscape.
One ISIS supporter on social media commented: ‘Abu al-Hassan al-Shami the martyr. His youth doesn’t stop him from supporting his religion.’
The news of the Syrian boy’s suicide bomb attack in Samarra comes just hours after ISIS released a new video showing the detonation of a lorry bomb in the same area.
Entitled ‘The Chink of Swords’, the video shows what is thought to be a British fighter, known by the nom de guerre of Abu Abdullah al-Britani, climbing into a heavy armoured vehicle.
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