Boy wearing suspected suicide belt arrested in Iraq

Security forces in Iraq have arrested a boy who was wearing a suspected suicide belt in the Kurdish city of Kirkuk.

The boy was restrained as officers removed the belt attached to his body.

He was later taken away and questioned by police.

It comes just days after 54 people were killed in a bomb blast in Turkey, which was carried out by a child of between 12 and 14 years old.

At least 22 of the victims in Saturday's suicide bomb attack on a wedding party in the southeastern city of Gaziantep were under the age of 14.

Witnesses said a three-month-old baby was among the dead...
  [rte.ie]
22/8/16
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• The death toll in the Gaziantep wedding bombing in Turkey has risen to 54. Authorities said about half of those killed -- 29 -- were children.