ISIS fanatics turn captured Syrian soldier into missile, attach bomb to his head before tossing him
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ISIS butchers have carried out one of the most chilling executions in the terror group's history - by turning a captive into an airborne bomb.
Images released on its propaganda channels show a captured and bound Syrian soldier being dropped head-first from a height and exploding on impact with the ground.
His body is bound tightly with cords and straightened with long, wooden planks - seemingly to keep him upright and aerodynamic.
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He was then fitted with a helmet filled with explosives, complete with an impact fuse on the top to trigger the device when his head hit the ground.
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The man was then thrown off a building in ISIS-controlled territory in the Yarmouk area of Syria, close to the capital Damascus.
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In one image too gruesome to show, the man's headless body lies motionless on the rubble.
Turning the prisoner of war into a human bomb may well have been vengeance for devastating airstrikes by Syrian and Russian armed forces on ISIS positions.+
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A recent UN Security Council report said ISIS has held on to several Syrian regions including Yarmouk, where the brutal execution took place.
In his monthly report to the council, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also said military escalation continued across Syria, including in de-escalation areas.
This story originally appeared in The Sun.