The terrorist group, ISIS, lined up and shot 200 Syrian children in a mass execution, which can be seen in a horrific new video.
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Islamic State fighters parade at the Syrian town of Tel Abyad, near the border with Turkey.
Just prior to their execution, the children were marched to the killing field then forced to lie face-down and alongside one another, while Islamic State militants stood behind them with weapons drawn, according to sources.
Then one of the terrorists approached each child in line and fired at point blank range, before moving on to the next.
Shortly thereafter, others joined in.
While the authenticity of the footage has yet to be verified, ISIS have been known in the past to film their barbaric executions before posting them online as a sick warning to the West.
ISIS is known to have executed children previously. However it is likely that these shootings, which last less than 30 seconds, are among ISIS’ worst atrocities.
A video purporting to show Isis militants murdering hundreds of Syrian children was allegedly filmed more than a year ago as propaganda for the terror organisation, an expert has claimed.
While ISIS is notorious for mass executions, there have been few reports of the militants targeting such a large group of children exclusively.
And the massacre of 1,700 military cadets in Iraq past year was carried out in part in Saddam Hussein’s former presidential quarters in Tikrit.
Public beheadings, dismemberment, and throwing people from tall buildings are a common occurrence within ISIS territory.
The video – which Express.co.uk has decided not to show – first began circulating online earlier today by a Yemen-based anti-ISIS activist, and has since sparked fury across the world. Another wrote: “This must be stopped!”
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Now the group have control of large swathes of land in both Syria and Iraq, with Russian Federation now in the middle of a blitzing campaign against the terror group in Syria.
