KABUL: (Middle East Press) The ISIL Takfiris have claimed that an Australian teenage recruit died after blowing himself up in Iraq and the Australian government is due to confirm this issue, said the Foreign Minister Julie Bishop on Thursday.
ISIL released an image on Wednesday claiming to show Abu Abdullah al-Australi before he carried out a suicide attack on the Iraqi city of Ramadi.
Australian media recently named Abu Abdullah al-Australi as a pseudonym of 18-year-old Australian Jake Bilardi.
Images of what appeared to be an explosion were also published by ISIL terrorist group.
“I can confirm that the Australian government is currently seeking to independently verify reports that 18-year-old Melbourne teenager Jake Bilardi has been killed in a suicide bombing attack in the Middle East,” Bishop told reporters in Perth.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported on Thursday that Bilardi had left improvised explosive devices at his house before going to Syria. Bishop declined comment on the report.
Bishop said Australian security forces believe 90 citizens are fighting alongside ISIL, and 20 Australians are confirmed to have been killed.
