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A young British boy was allegedly pictured executing “spies” in a newly released ISIL propaganda video on Friday.

The film shows five boys apparently aged as young as six or seven year shooting dead kneeling captives.

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Captions on the online film identify one of the young pistol-wielding executioners, who are all wearing identical military-style uniforms, as a Briton called Abu Abdullah al-Britani.

The other executioners, who are all of similar ages, are Egyptian, Kurdish, Tunisian and Uzbek according to captions of the video shot in Syria’s Raqqa province.

Last night the identity of the allegedly British child executioner remained unclear. The same name was previously used by another British jihadist, Assad Uzzaman from Portsmouth, who was killed in Syria in July 2015.