Sick ISIS snipers kill 15 kids as they flee to safety from Mosul in chilling new tactic
A security source revealed jihadis are targeting Iraqi children to prevent their families from escaping the besieged city
SICK ISIS snipers killed 15 refugee kids as they tried to flee to safety in Mosul in what is feared to be a chilling new tactic.
A security source has revealed jihadis are targeting young Iraqi children to prevent their families from trying to escape the besieged city.
In one shocking recent attack, the terror group’s snipers gunned down 15 child refugees as they were attempting to run towards "safe locations".
Iraqi Security Forces have been guiding civilians to safety as they continue their advance into ISIS’s last major stronghold in Iraq.
“ISIS snipers killed 15 kids belonging to Mosul refugees who were heading to security forces,” the source told Alsumaria News.
“ISIS gangs have used the most horrific means of killing with the migrating people of Mosul.
“They have been targeting them with IEDs, sniping their children to prevent them from leaving town and using them as human shields.”
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More than 1.5 million people are thought to be trapped in the city as Iraqi army units shoot it out with ISIS militants on the ground.
Almost 500,000 of those left amid the ruins in Mosul are estimated to be children – the same population as Manchester.
A shocking new report recently revealed that half of these children do not have access to clean water.
Food supplies have also dwindled, leaving poorer families struggling to feed themselves.
Horrific pictures have recently emerged which show emaciated children arriving at refugee camps after fleeing the city.
Two skeletal boys – thought to be aged two and nine – were filmed by the BBC when they arrived at the Hasansham refugee camp.
