Afghan police detain child with suicide vest
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| Publication Date | 6 January 2014 |
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January 06, 2014
Afghan police have detained a young girl wearing a suicide vest who sought to attack a border police post.
A spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry, Sediq Sediqi, told the BBC on January 6 that the girl was caught the previous night in Helmand Province as she approached the post.
Sediqi said the girl is thought to be the sister of a prominent Taliban commander, who encouraged her to attempt the attack.
She was initially believed to have been 8 years old, but subsequent reports put her age at around 10.
She has now been transferred to the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah and is said to be in a state of shock and confusion.
Based on reporting by BBC
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