That was last Sunday.
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It has led to fears children are increasingly being used by ISIS to carry out deadly attacks.
Other local officials confirmed the information. Those children are stolen or kidnapped and then forced to belong to their cause.
Islamic State of Iraq and Levant’s (ISIL’s) newest tactic has the terror group strapping explosives vests on children, sending them to densely-populated areas or events and remotely detonating the explosives.
“Child recruitment across the region is increasing”, said Juliette Touma, a UNICEF regional spokesperson.
The blast tore into celebrations at a Kurdish wedding on the street late at night.
At least 22 of the victims were under the age of 14, a government official said.
Kirkuk has seen a rise in ethnic tensions following Isis’ blitz across northern and western Iraq in 2014.
“We have had reports of children, especially children that are mentally challenged, who have been used as suicide bombers, most probably without them even understanding what has happened or what they have to expect”, Renate Winter, an expert with the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, told CNN in 2015. Karim states that encouraged by the most extreme interpretation of the Islam, terrorist militants promise children the heaven and good things if they complete their “missions”.
Iraqi forces are now conducting shaping operations on several fronts to tighten the noose on Mosul – Iraq’s second city – and set the stage for an offensive.
He was intercepted by Kurdish forces in Kirkuk, north of Baghdad on August 21. “They also attract less attention and less suspicion than male adults”.
The bomb was eventually defused by specialists who arrived at the scene.
Security sources at the time said the explosive device was wrapped around her body.
So far the organization has not issued a statement to say a word about the detained boy, but Iraqi authorities believe ISIS is likely behind the failed bombing.
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In Kirkuk, hundreds of residents attempted to flee earlier this month, risking violent reprisals from ISIS, as Iraqi and Kurdish forces prepared to move into the jihadist held region.
