Children stand among a crowd of laughing men as depraved Islamic State militants throw a man accused of being gay from the top of a building in northern Iraq.

Shocking new photographs show the man, who is blindfolded and has his hands tied behind his back, pushed off the top of a silo.

It is the latest proof of ISIS' ambition to hunt down and execute anyone they believe is gay.

Depraved: The man, who ISIS militants claim is gay, is knelt at the top of the Silo in Iraq before being killed

Brutal: The man, who is blindfolded and has his hands tied behind his back, is thrown from the tall building

Blood-thirsty: Below, a crowd of men and children watch as the Islamic extremists carry out their punishment

It is unclear how the man's sexuality was discovered, but a jihadi appears to commentate on the killing using a microphone.

The pictures, tweeted by an ISIS Twitter account, show the victim at the top of the building with three balaclava-clad terrorists before being thrown to his death. His crumpled, motionless body is photographed at the foot of the silo.

The crowd of men and children - some of them smiling and laughing - watch on as the man is brutally murdered in front of them.

Public killing: A man commentates on the killing, which takes place in front of a crowd, using a microphone

Murdered: The man, who is accused of being gay, is pictured falling to his death from the top of a silo in Iraq

Vile: The photographs of the murder of the man believed to be gay have been shared on social media

The images are just the latest to be released by the terror group. Last month, vile photographs showed a man thought to be gay being thrown to his death in the Iraqi city of Mosul.

And just a few days earlier, pictures of two men being hurled from a building for 'being gay' and then stoned to death were released. It is thought the photographs were taken in Homs, Syria.

In previous months, similar demonstrations of depravity were released by ISIS, which imposes strict Sharia law in the vast swathes of territory it controls, on social media.

Attraction: Locals turn out to watch the public display of brutality in an unnamed location somewhere in Iraq