SAS sniper kills 5 ISIS fighters with just 3 bullets

He was given the go ahead to attack after the men were spotted leaving the explosives HQ wearing heavy coats in hot weather - a sign they were hiding suicide vests.

They were on their way to carry out a terror attack at a nearby town in which they would have blown themselves up amid a crowd of civilians.

But the sniper - a 10-year special forces veteran - needed just three bullets to wipe out the entire unit.

He shot the first jihadi in the chest as he walked out of the factory.

The bullet detonated his suicide vest which blew him up along with and two Isis guards waiting in a nearby car to ferry the bombers to their target destination.

The sniper shot the second terrorist in the head killing him instantly.

The third member of the cell was also shot in his suicide vest which also exploded.

An Army source said the operation - 10km outside the Isis stronghold of Mosul - was a 'classic SAS mission'.

"The intelligence guys got information that a bomb factory had been set up in a nearby village,'' he said.

"There were too many civilian homes nearby and children were often around so an airstrike was out of the question.

"Instead the SAS commander in Iraq decided to use a sniper team and the operation was a complete success.

"With just three well-aimed shots that single team has probably saved the lives of hundreds of innocent people.''

It is not the first time the SAS has struck a significant blow against Isis.

A crack Brit special forces team tracked down the terror regime's UK executioner Mohammed 'Jihadi John' Emwazi, 27, in Syria and called in the air strike that killed him.

Eight SAS operatives sneaked to within five miles of the Isis stronghold of Raqqa after being helicoptered in to an isolated spot in the Syrian desert.

They then assembled four 3ft nano-helicopters with infrared and night-vision cameras in the nose which were pre-programmed to fly to Emwazi's suspected hideout - a six-storey building in Raqqa.

The third drone beamed footage of Emwazi back to SAS HQ in Hereford and US Central Command in Doha, Qatar.

Emwazi - wanted for the filmed executions of at least seven prisoners including Brit aid workers Alan Henning, 47, and 44 year old David Haines - was blown up by a Hellfire missile as he walked out of a building to a waiting car.

(dailystar.co.uk)