BY PAUL HARPER
14th January 2017, 10:32 pm
TERROR group The Islamic State (ISIS) has begun using deadly drones to drop explosives on Iraqi civilians.
Terrorists fighting in Mosul are said to be using large homemade fixed wing craft packed with 40 millimetre grenades.
Colonel Brett Sylvia, who commands an “advise and assist” US unit in Iraq, said IS fighters are attaching small munitions to quadcopters in an attempt to kill local forces as they retake Mosul
A series of recent strikes has confirmed fears ISIS has developed capabilities for weaponised drones, after previously using the devices for surveillance.
In the now liberated streets of eastern Mosul, civilians heading to the crowded market are an easy target for the lethal machines.
The Telegraph reports that in one strike last week in eastern Mosul eight people were wounded in an attack on a market.
“I was shopping with my family when a small Isil plane dropped a grenade on us,” Hussein, 14, told the paper.
The boy was reportedly being treated for a broken bone protruding from his foot.