Iraqi security forces apprehended a teenager wearing a suicide belt before he was able to detonate it in the city of Kirkuk, AFP reported.
The foiled attack late Sunday was one of a series of security incidents in Kirkuk and came a day after a child suicide bomber killed more than 50 people in Turkey.
Kirkuk police chief Brig. Gen. Khattab Omar Aref told reporters the boy likely intended to blow himself up at a Shia place of worship.
The thwarted attack was one of four separate security incidents in Kirkuk over a few hours, including one in which a policeman shot a suicide bomber who tried to enter a Shia prayer hall.
Aref said the attackers involved in the latest string of incidents entered Kirkuk recently and came from Mosul, the last remaining major bastion of the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL).
