Dead ISIS fighter in Mosul becomes macabre attraction for kids after he’s found half-buried with legs in the air
The girsly snap was taken in al-Barid, a district of Mosul which has been reclaimed from ISIS in recent days
THIS is the shocking moment a group of curious children stare at the grisly sight of a half-buried ISIS fighter with his feet up in the air.
The snap was taken yesterday in al-Barid, a district of Mosul which has been reclaimed from ISIS in recent days.
In the photograph, an Iraqi soldier carrying a machine gun looks down at the group of children while he puts one feet on the dead militant's legs that are sticking up in the air.
Earlier this month, sick ISIS snipers killed 15 refugee kids as they tried to flee to safety in Mosul.
A security source revealed jihadis were 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.
In the last month, Mosul's latest death toll figures reveal one thousand civilians have been killed as allied troops struggle to breach ISIS-held city.
A large number of the 926 innocent dead are thought to be children unable to flee for help from charities like The Sun-backed AMAR Foundation.
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