According to a report of the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child, ISIS are using mentally handicapped children for suicide attacks. “We have had reports of children, especially children who are mentally challenged, who have been used as suicide bombers, most probably without them even understanding,” one of the committee experts said last year. The report states that these children are most likely unaware of what they are doing. Meanwhile, as the death toll from a deadly suicide bombing – which took place late on Saturday at a wedding party in the southern Turkish town of Gaziantep, near the southern border with Syria – rose to 51, with another 69 wounded of whom 17 were critical, Turkey’s president Erdogan issued a statement denouncing the “heinous” bombing and saying that IS was “the most likely perpetrator of the Gaziantep attack.” This was the deadliest attack in Turkey so far this year.
The remains of a suicide vest were recovered at the site, according to the state-run Anadolu Agency, with president Erdogan later adding that the perpetrator was a child between the ages of 12 and 14 year, whose bomb was remotely or self-detonated.