IRBIL, Iraq — Iraqi police say they have apprehended a boy would-be suicide bomber in the city of Kirkuk before he was able to detonate his explosives belt. Local television footage aired Monday on Kurdistan 24 TV shows a group of police officers holding the young boy while two men are seen cutting off a belt of explosives. After they remove the belt, the boy is seen being rushed into a police truck and driven away. Kirkuk police department spokesman Col. Avrasiya Kamil Wais says the boy was apprehended on Sunday night, an hour after a suicide bomb attack on a Shiite mosque in the city. Kirkuk, an oil rich city in Iraq’s north is claimed by both Iraq’s central government and the country’s Kurdish region.

Source: National Post August 22, 2016 09:45 UTC