PHOTOS: Boko Haram releases images of their child soldiers being trained in Nigeria

Lord have mercy!

Nigerian terror group Boko Haram is training child soldiers how to use semi-automatic weapons.

The group has released pictures showing more than a dozen children posing with, and learning how to aim, AK-47's.

The images appear to have been taken in northern Nigeria where Boko Haram has committed most of its attacks. 

They were published online by Al Urwa al Wuthaqa, a media group that has been associated with the insurgents, and come months after Human Rights Watch warned that boys and girls kidnapped by the terrorist group were being used during their attacks.

Just days ago Boko Haram were suspected of kidnapping at least 30 children, including girls as young as 11, in a village north of the country. A week earlier the terrorists snatched around 40 women in Adamawa State.