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Baghdad: Unsettling images show the moment security forces officials removed an explosive vest from a boy, thought to be as young as 12, in Kirkuk, Iraq.
A video of the incident has surfaced that shows police officials stripping off the explosive belt and then arresting the boy.
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The boy, believed to be working on behalf of ISIS, broke down in tears as he was captured by police on Sunday.
The incident came 24 hours after 51 wedding guests were killed at a wedding in Turkey in a similar attack.
A suicide bomber aged between 12 and 14 carried out the attack in the Turkish city of Gaziantep on Saturday.
The attack was the deadliest in a series of bombings in Turkey this year, and President Tayyip Erdogan said Islamic State was likely behind it.
"Initial evidence suggests it was a Daesh attack," Erdogan said in Istanbul on Sunday, using an Arabic name for the hardline Sunni Islamist group. He said 69 people were in hospital and 17 were "heavily injured".
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