article_snippet: I can confirm that Australia is currently seeking to independently verify reports that 18-year-old Melbourne teenager Jake Bilardi has been killed in a suicide bombing attack in the Middle East," 18-year-old Melbourne teenager Jake Bilardi told reporters.
article_snippet: The claim, issued on a Twitter account associated with the Anbar provincial division of ISIS, was accompanied by a series of 20 images, including a photo of a young man who looked like 18-year-old Melbourne teenager Jake Bilardi.
article_snippet: The image appeared to show 18-year-old Melbourne teenager Jake Bilardi at the wheel of a car with the caption, "Abu Abdullah al-Australi (may Allah accept him), the attacker on the 8th Brigade.
article_snippet: Victoria police said 18-year-old Melbourne teenager Jake Bilardi first came to Victoria police attention when 18-year-old Melbourne teenager Jake Bilardi family reported 18-year-old Melbourne teenager Jake Bilardi missing last year.
article_snippet: A search of his family's home in the Melbourne suburb of Craigieburn following 18-year-old Melbourne teenager Jake Bilardi disappearance uncovered chemicals that could be used to make an explosive device, police said, although no actual bombs were found.
article_snippet: Australian media have reported that 18-year-old Melbourne teenager Jake Bilardi kept a since-deleted blog, written under 18-year-old Melbourne teenager Jake Bilardi alias Abu Abdullah al-Australi.
article_snippet: Member of 18-year-old Melbourne teenager Jake Bilardi's family have linked the teen's radicalization to the loss of Member of Bilardi's family mother from cancer.
article_snippet: Member of Bilardi's family's just a young boy that went looking for something after Member of Bilardi's family lost someone very very dear to Member of Bilardi's family, Member of Bilardi's family mother," Member of Bilardi's family aunt, Connie Bilardi, told CNN affiliate Seven on Monday.
article_snippet: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott addressed Bilardi's alleged suicide attack in comments to the press Thursday.
highlights_snippet: Jake Bilardi, 18, joined ISIS last year, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said .
  