Terror group spared boy's life after reciting Quran

Terrorist group, Al Qaeda, who recently launched a massacre at a beach in Ivory Coast, were said to have spared the life of a five-year-old boy after he knelt down and begged for his life reciting a verse from the Holy Book of Quran.

A group of four men armed with AK47s and hand grenades killed 16 people, including four Europeans, in the historic town of Grand Bassam before they were gunned down in a shootout with government troops.

A witness, Marcel Guy, said a man with a long beard spoke to two children in Arabic and spared the life of the one who was able to recite an Islamic prayer.

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He said, "The Christian boy was shot and killed right in front of my eyes,"

Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara,  who gave an update of the attack said, "of the 16 people who were gunned down in the resort popular with Westerners, 14 were civilians and two were special forces soldiers."

"I am very proud of our security forces who reacted so fast... The toll could've been much heavier," he added.

Terror group Al Qaeda in the Maghreb has claimed responsibility for the attack through one of their social media accounts, but this has not been independently verified.

They are the most notorious terror group in Africa, carrying out a wide scale massacre of majorly non muslims within their region.

Their most prominent attack on African soil being the attacks at the United States Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, the other at the United States Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.