The girl was rescued from sniper fire in Mosul, Iraq (Picture: Nabih Bulos/ YouTube)

A former US special forces soldier has been captured on film braving ISIS gunfire as he saved a young girl from the front line

Aid worker David Eubank, 56, was in the war torn northern Iraqi city Mosul when he spotted the stranded girl and a toddler moving among the bodies of civilians who had been shot by a sniper.

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Wearing a helmet and a ballistic vest Eubank is shown on the video running to save the girl as members of his armed aid group the Free Burma Rangers provide cover.

Eubank told the Los Angeles Times: ‘I thought, “If I die doing this, my wife and kids would understand”.’




The hero returned to find the toddler, but was unsuccessful and another injured man the team tried to save did not survive.

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The FBR trying to save civilians in Mosul (Picture: Nabih Bulos/ YouTube)

Eubank formed the Free Burma Rangers (FBR) as a Christian humanitarian group in 1997 has provided emergency relief in war zones and since January 2016, FBR has traveled to Iraq for relief trips.

Eubank took his wife Karen and their three children ages 11 to 16, into Mosul after hearing horror stories of ISIS’s treatment of civilians.

He said: ‘I believe God sent me here, and I don’t think about security but I always ask myself if I’m doing it out of pride.’

His wife and children were staying a mile behind the front line at the time of the rescue and now Texan Eubank and his family are all back home in America.

Allied forces, made up of Iraqi and American forces, are laying siege to Mosul as they try and kill off the remaining ISIS troops in the city.

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