Wyatt Roy was caught in an IS firefight and Twitter can't handle it

Well played, internet.

Source: Twitter

Hours ago an

revealed that former federal assistant minister Wyatt Roy was involved in a deadly firefight between Islamic State and Kurdish Pashmerga forces in Iraq.

Roy says he “wanted to visit and see for myself, in a way that I really couldn’t have done as a member of parliament.”

#Exclusive: Footage provided by Wyatt Roy of a deadly confrontation between Islamic State and Kurdish Peshmerga forces in Iraq pic.twitter.com/szfLmrlZKI — SBS News (@SBSNews) September 29, 2016

Within minutes of the news breaking online, Twitter truly out-did itself:

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Published 29 September 2016 6:35pm

Updated 29 September 2016 7:04pm

By Ben Winsor

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