How evil terrorists rigged games consoles to target kids

EVIL ISIS rigged games controllers and mobile phones with lethal explosives in order to target children, it has been revealed.

- NICOLE WOOTTONCANE

TV remotes, taps, and clothes pegs are among the sickening booby-trapped household items uncovered by one charity in northern Iraq.

Placed in schools, hospitals, and civilian houses in villages occupied then deserted by ISIS, the homemade death traps designed to kill innocent people have now been exposed in a gallery of death by UKbased charity Mines Advisory Group (MAG).

MAG finds and destroys landmines, cluster munitions and unexploded bombs which remain deadly long after conflicts have ended.

They have been working in Iraq since 1992 clearing mines from the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, the first and second Gulf Wars, and the persecution of the Kurdish people under Saddam Hussein's government.

But after large swathes of the country fell under the Islamic State group's (ISIS) campaign of terror in 2014, they found themselves dealing with a new type of evil - ISIS's improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

Without access to more traditional explosives, the jihadist group used the expertise of their members many of them qualified professionals - to improvise their own brand of terror. What resulted were some of the most harrowing weapons the world has ever seen.

The Iraqi government declared their war with ISIS over. But hundreds of these evil IEDs remain.