Suspected Boy Suicide Bomber Stripped Of Explosives Belt In Iraq

Police have stripped an explosives belt from a suspected child suicide bomber in northern Iraq.

Pictures show the moment Kurdish security forces stopped and searched the boy in a street in the city of Kirkuk on Sunday.

The child looked distressed as he was restrained by four officials who grappled with the youngster as they attempted to inspect the belt.

It was eventually removed from the boy's body and the explosives defused at the scene.

The boy appeared distressed as he was detained by security forces

The boy, reportedly no older than 13, was arrested in the city's Huziran neighbourhood and driven away in a police car.

His detention followed two suicide bombings in the city earlier the same day.

It comes a day after Turkish authorities blamed a child suicide bomber for killing at least 51 people and injuring 69 at a wedding in the city of Gaziantep

At least 22 of the victims were younger than 14, according to a government official. That attack is believed to have been carried out by Islamic State.

Suspected Boy Suicide Bomber Stripped Of Explosives Belt In Iraq

Police have stripped an explosives belt from a suspected child suicide bomber in northern Iraq.

Pictures show the moment Kurdish security forces stopped and searched the boy in a street in the city of Kirkuk on Sunday.

The child looked distressed as he was restrained by four officials who grappled with the youngster as they attempted to inspect the belt.

It was eventually removed from the boy's body and the explosives defused at the scene.

The boy appeared distressed as he was detained by security forces

The boy, reportedly no older than 13, was arrested in the city's Huziran neighbourhood and driven away in a police car.

His detention followed two suicide bombings in the city earlier the same day.

It comes a day after Turkish authorities blamed a child suicide bomber for killing at least 51 people and injuring 69 at a wedding in the city of Gaziantep

At least 22 of the victims were younger than 14, according to a government official. That attack is believed to have been carried out by Islamic State.

Suspected Boy Suicide Bomber Stripped Of Explosives Belt In Iraq

Police have stripped an explosives belt from a suspected child suicide bomber in northern Iraq.

Pictures show the moment Kurdish security forces stopped and searched the boy in a street in the city of Kirkuk on Sunday.

The child looked distressed as he was restrained by four officials who grappled with the youngster as they attempted to inspect the belt.

It was eventually removed from the boy's body and the explosives defused at the scene.

The boy appeared distressed as he was detained by security forces

The boy, reportedly no older than 13, was arrested in the city's Huziran neighbourhood and driven away in a police car.

His detention followed two suicide bombings in the city earlier the same day.

It comes a day after Turkish authorities blamed a child suicide bomber for killing at least 51 people and injuring 69 at a wedding in the city of Gaziantep

At least 22 of the victims were younger than 14, according to a government official. That attack is believed to have been carried out by Islamic State.

Suspected Boy Suicide Bomber Stripped Of Explosives Belt In Iraq

Police have stripped an explosives belt from a suspected child suicide bomber in northern Iraq.

Pictures show the moment Kurdish security forces stopped and searched the boy in a street in the city of Kirkuk on Sunday.

The child looked distressed as he was restrained by four officials who grappled with the youngster as they attempted to inspect the belt.

It was eventually removed from the boy's body and the explosives defused at the scene.

The boy appeared distressed as he was detained by security forces

The boy, reportedly no older than 13, was arrested in the city's Huziran neighbourhood and driven away in a police car.

His detention followed two suicide bombings in the city earlier the same day.

It comes a day after Turkish authorities blamed a child suicide bomber for killing at least 51 people and injuring 69 at a wedding in the city of Gaziantep

At least 22 of the victims were younger than 14, according to a government official. That attack is believed to have been carried out by Islamic State.

Suspected Boy Suicide Bomber Stripped Of Explosives Belt In Iraq

Police have stripped an explosives belt from a suspected child suicide bomber in northern Iraq.

Pictures show the moment Kurdish security forces stopped and searched the boy in a street in the city of Kirkuk on Sunday.

The child looked distressed as he was restrained by four officials who grappled with the youngster as they attempted to inspect the belt.

It was eventually removed from the boy's body and the explosives defused at the scene.

The boy appeared distressed as he was detained by security forces

The boy, reportedly no older than 13, was arrested in the city's Huziran neighbourhood and driven away in a police car.

His detention followed two suicide bombings in the city earlier the same day.

It comes a day after Turkish authorities blamed a child suicide bomber for killing at least 51 people and injuring 69 at a wedding in the city of Gaziantep

At least 22 of the victims were younger than 14, according to a government official. That attack is believed to have been carried out by Islamic State.

Jeremy Corbyn's Westminster Pledge As Ballot Papers Sent Out

s called for the "magic circle" of Westminster to be broken and the views of "ordinary people" to be heard, as the first ballot papers in the leadership contest are due to go out.

The party leader said he would encourage "decision-making for the millions not the millionaires" as he addressed Labour supporters in north London at a leadership rally.

Mr Corbyn said workers "in factories, in call centres, in local authorities" had ideas about how to change the economy, but were "frustrated that nobody is listening to them".

"The principle of democracy has to be ground up," he said, as he urged supporters to vote to re-elect him as Labour leader.

"It is about breaking open this magical circle of Westminster, some of our great universities, Whitehall and the boardrooms who try to control thinking, control ideas and control the way policy is developed."

Mr Corbyn has also vowed to strengthen trade union bargaining powers introduce new collective and individual rights in the workplace.

The first ballot papers in the Labour leadership contest between Mr Corbyn and Owen Smith are being sent out today.

More than 640,000 Labour Party members and supporters will be eligible to vote, the party has said.

Mr Corbyn's latest proposals appeared designed to strengthen his support among his powerbase of grassroots activists who swept him to the leadership in last year's contest.

But Mr Smith did receive a major boost over the weekend with London Mayor Sadiq Khan urging Labour members to ditch Mr Corbyn and support the former work and pensions secretary.

:: Sadiq Khan Urges Labour To Oust 'Failed' Leader

Extremist Prisoners To Be Held In Separate Units

Convicted extremists who promote terror and violence will be isolated from the rest of the prison population under new plans to be announced by the Government.

The recommendation is in response to a government-ordered review into radicalisation in jails, which will be unveiled later by Justice Secretary Liz Truss.

It comes just days after it was revealed that Anjem Choudary, one of Britain's most prominent Islamist clerics, was convicted over drumming up support for Islamic State.

:: Terror Fears Over Impact Of Hate Cleric Conviction

He faces years behind bars, prompting fears he could influence other inmates and recruit them to the terror group.

The review revealed that "charismatic" prisoners were found to have exerted a "radicalising influence" on the wider Muslim population in jail, and were acting as "self-styled emirs" behind bars.

Other examples cited were:

:: Aggressive encouragement of conversions to Islam;

:: Unsupervised collective worship, sometimes at Friday Prayers - including pressure on supervising staff to leave the prayer room;

:: Attempts to engineer segregation by landing, by wing, or even by prison and prevent staff searches by claiming dress is religious;

:: Books and educational materials promoting extremist literature in chaplaincy libraries;

:: Intimidation of prison imams and "exploitation of staff fear of being labelled racist".

Plans to create specialist units within prisons to remove the most "dangerous extremists" from the general population was one of the review's key recommendations.

Measures also include improving extremism prevention training for all officers and strengthened vetting of prison chaplains.

Governors will also be instructed to ban extremist literature and remove anyone from Friday prayers who is "promoting anti-British beliefs or other dangerous views".

Speaking ahead of her announcement, Ms Truss said: "Islamist extremism is a danger to society and a threat to public safety - it must be defeated wherever it is found.

"I am committed to confronting and countering the spread of this poisonous ideology behind bars.

"Preventing the most dangerous extremists from radicalising other prisoners is essential to the safe running of our prisons and fundamental to public protection."

Shadow prisons minister Jo Stevens claimed the issue of radicalisation of vulnerable Muslim inmates and growing extremism in prisons "has been ignored by the Tories for over five years".

Citing record levels of violence and a growing prison population, she added: "It's little wonder overstretched prisons have been unable to address the problem."address the problem."

Figures show there were 12,633 Muslims in prison in England and Wales as of the end of June. The number stood at 8,243 a decade earlier.

As at the end of March, of the 147 people in prison for terrorism-related offences, 137 of them considered themselves to be Muslim.