SAS hero wipes out 30 terror fanatics in one grenade attack

AN SAS soldier killed at least 30 Islamic State gunmen with an automatic grenade launcher.

The incident came during a last-ditch battle in Syria.

Hand-to-hand combat had forced the terrorists into a small pocket inside the town of Baghuz.

The militants had been given repeated chances to surrender but most refused,

preferring to die as “martyrs”. The SAS teams were moving around the outskirts of the town when they came under fire from the Isis stronghold, located inside a former bank.

One member of the SAS was slightly injured by a bullet ricocheting off the ground before a trooper on a specially adapted Army Land Rover pummelled the building with a grenade machine gun (GMG). A source said: “At least six grenades were fired directly into the building, killing several of the fighters.

“The soldier kept firing until half of the battle-damaged building collapsed.

“When Kurdish troops returned a few days later they discovered at least 30 bodies inside the shattered building.

“All were IS fighters and most had died from shrapnel wounds from the

grenades fired into the building.” They added: “The automatic grenade launcher is a real force multiplier. It allows troops to lay down a massive amount of firepower very quickly.”

The SAS also discovered the bodies of dozens of civilians, including women and children who were butchered by the militants.

Sources have revealed that the hardened SAS fighters were sickened by the sight of decapitated heads placed on poles and the bodies of men, women and children lying rotting in the streets.

News of the SAS success came as it was revealed that the Islamic State “caliphate” has finally been crushed.

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said the group’s five-year rule was over in Syria after the militants’ defeat in Baghuz.

SDF fighters have been raising victory flags in the town.