Police apprehended an 11-year-old boy wearing a belt of explosives that was cut off by two officers in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk before it could be detonated, police said Monday. Iraqi security forces removed a suicide vest containing two kilograms of TNT from a boy in Kirkuk on Sunday. Kirkuk is in northern Iraq and is claimed by both Iraq's central government and the country's Kurdish region. Iraqi security forces largely withdrew from Kirkuk and Kurdish forces known as the peshmerga took control of the city. The Kurds have also long wanted to incorporate the city into their semi-autonomous region, but Iraq's central government opposes this.

Source: CBC News August 22, 2016 15:35 UTC