An eight-year-old Afghan girl wearing a suicide vest has been detained by police in southern Afghanistan.
She was held on Sunday night in Helmand province, as she tried to carry out an attack against border police wearing a suicide jacket, a spokesman for the Afghan interior ministry told the BBC. The girl, thought to be the sister of a prominent Taliban commander, is said to be in a state of shock and confusion.
Police told the BBC she was encouraged to carry the attack by her brother. According to interior ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi, one of the Afghan soldiers spotted the girl wearing a suicide jacket. But she could not operate the button to detonate the suicide vest or she was arrested before she could carry the attack, the BBC’s Bilal Sarwary reports from the Afghan capital, Kabul. The girl has now been transferred to the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah. BBC News
