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A BRITISH shooting range is using Shamima Begum posters as TARGET PRACTICE for punters as young as six years old.

The reviled ISIS bride was last week refused British citizenship after fleeing East London in 2014 to join the brutal caliphate.

Shamima Begum is currently living in the squalid Al-Hawl refugee camp in Syria, and is begging to return to the UK
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Shamima Begum is currently living in the squalid Al-Hawl refugee camp in Syria, and is begging to return to the UKCredit: ITV
Posters of Shamima Begum were being used as sick target practice by punters
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Posters of Shamima Begum were being used as sick target practice by puntersCredit: BBC
Ultimate Airsoft Range tweeted a now deleted post showing a video of the posters being printed
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Ultimate Airsoft Range tweeted a now deleted post showing a video of the posters being printedCredit: Twitter
Reaction online was predominantly negative
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Reaction online was predominantly negativeCredit: Twitter

The Bethnal Green runaway schoolgirl, now 19, has begged to come back to the UK from the squalid Al-Hawl camp in Syria where she is living with her week-old baby.

Ultimate Airsoft Range in Wallasey, Wirral, said they introduced the sick targets due to supply and demand.

On their now deleted Twitter page, the company posted a video showing dozens of Begum posters being printed off with a target range around her head and the message "hot off the press".

They also used numerous hashtags including "#Traitors and "#madeyourchoice".

Other targets at the range include depictions of Donald Trump, Margaret Thatcher and Adolf Hitler.

That’s just wrong. No sympathy for her plight but this is not us as a country

Twitter user OJ

The company has defended the move, telling The Victoria Derbyshire Show that it allows people "to have some light-hearted fun bringing out the inner child in all”.

It is not known how long punters have been able to use the target, but the video was posted more than a week ago on February 19.

Today the business deleted its Twitter page after the business decision provoked outrage online.

Social media user OJ wrote: "That’s just wrong. No sympathy for her plight but this is not us as a country."

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While MsAlliance added: "How is this light hearted or fun? And to what sort of inner child would this appeal?

"One who had been raised without any humanity or decency. This is sick. The people defending it are base."

British actress Shobna Gulati also condemned the target, writing simply: "That's disgusting."

Ultimate Airsoft Range refused to comment when approached by the Sun Online.

Ultimate Airsoft Range in Wallasey said the move allowed adults and children as young as six 'to have some light-hearted fun bringing out the inner child in all'
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Ultimate Airsoft Range in Wallasey said the move allowed adults and children as young as six 'to have some light-hearted fun bringing out the inner child in all'Credit: BBC
Other targets at the range include Donald Trump, Margaret Thatcher and Adolf Hitler
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Other targets at the range include Donald Trump, Margaret Thatcher and Adolf HitlerCredit: BBC
Shamima Begum has given a number of interviews since she was discovered by a Times journalist at Al-Hawl refugee camp in Syria
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Shamima Begum has given a number of interviews since she was discovered by a Times journalist at Al-Hawl refugee camp in Syria
The schoolgirl was 15 when she fled from East London, only resurfacing in Syria four years later
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The schoolgirl was 15 when she fled from East London, only resurfacing in Syria four years laterCredit: EPA
ISIS bride Shamima Begum says she would like UK authorities to re-evaluate her case with 'a bit more mercy in their heart'

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