The Iraqi Federal Police shared a drone video on March 29 described as showing Islamic State fighters using a child as a human shield in Mosul.
The drone shows a person said to be an IS fighter crossing a street with what appears to be a child by his side. The footage shows the pair in cross hairs and says no shots were fired for fear of harming the child.
Storyful cannot independently confirm what police said the video shows, but the source has been providing regular accurate accounts of the fighting from within the city of Mosul for a long period.
A United Nations report on March 28 cited the use of civilians as human shields by Islamic State, amid reports of mounting casualties in the assault by Iraqi forces on the city.
