Shafaq News / A local official said on Saturday that the dead body of an 11-year-old boy was found killed in a horrific way in a mosque in Zammar district, northwest of Mosul, the local capital of Nineveh Governorate said.

“A child left home in "Domiz" housing complex at 11:00 p.m. to buy  something  from one the nearby stores and he did not return back,” The director of the district, Ahmed Jaafar  said in a statement to Shafaq News.

He added that the parents started search for him, noting that the child was found at 2 a.m., killed with his head smashed by a stone inside an abandoned mosque in the housing complex.

Jaafar ruled out the possibility that the incident was terrorist, saying, "We expect this crime to be a criminal, but we let’s not anticipate the incidents, as the police started investigations to reveal the circumstances of the incident."