The youngster is seen climbing into a vehicle in the terror group’s latest propaganda video before a bomb goes off
A SUICIDE bomber so small he can barely see over the steering wheel is the 'star' of terrifying new ISIS murder video filmed in terror capital Mosul.
The boy – who looks no older than a young teen – is seen climbing into a vehicle before setting off a bomb.
In the terror group’s latest propaganda video the youngster turns to talk to the camera, holding the steering wheel of the improvised killing device.
Seconds later the camera follows the suicide vehicle as it makes its way through the streets before a huge explosion rocks the city.
The full video called Knights of Bureaucracy shows the extremists attaching bombs to drones and sending them over populated areas.
The Islamic State’s use of drones has been reported at an increasing scale since the launch of the Mosul offensive.
General Abdul Wahab al-Saadi, a commander within Iraqi’s Special Forces said: “They use them [drones] to give directions to suicide car bombs coming towards us, as well as to take pictures of our forces.
“They also use a new tactic, where the drone itself has a bomb attached to it.’”
The US military has implemented a series of defensive counter-measures against hypothetical drone attacks by IS fighters, including the introduction of the Drone Defender, a hand-held electronic device that can jam drone signals and automatically down them with a range of up to 1,200 feet.
It comes on the week hundreds of families who fled Mosul last year left displacement camps Wednesday to head back to their homes, in the biggest wave yet of returns to the city, officials said.
Displaced Mosul residents hurled bags and foam mattresses into vans and onto buses, many smiling as they prepared to forsake a place they often first reached scared, hungry and exhausted.
Iraqi forces recently completed their recapture of eastern Mosul, which tens of thousands of people had fled since the October 17 start of a massive offensive against the Islamic State (IS) group.
According to the United Nations, more than 180,000 people have been displaced since the start of the offensive but at least 22,000 have since returned to their homes.
The homemade device did not reach its intended target as troops managed to stop its murderous spree.
Images show the burnt out tank was fitted with metal cages over the windows with a sign on its side reading: “Islamic State, Nineveh Province, Abi Laith Ansari Battalion.”
Iraq’s Golden Division took out the improvised weapon during a battle in the east of Mosul, killing the driver and setting fire to the would be killing machine
Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city and the IS’s last urban stronghold in the country, fell into the hands of the extremists in the summer of 2014, when the group captured large swaths of northern and western Iraq.
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