KABUL: An eight-year-old Afghan girl has been caught wearing a suicide vest in Afghanistan’s Helmand province.
She was held on Sunday night as she tried to carry out an attack on border police, an Interior Ministry spokesman told the BBC.
The girl, thought to be the sister of a prominent Taleban commander, is said to be in a state of shock and confusion.
Police claimed she was encouraged to carry out the attack by her brother.
According to the ministry’s 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 girl has been transferred to the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah.
She was held on Sunday night as she tried to carry out an attack on border police, an Interior Ministry spokesman told the BBC.
The girl, thought to be the sister of a prominent Taleban commander, is said to be in a state of shock and confusion.
Police claimed she was encouraged to carry out the attack by her brother.
According to the ministry’s 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 girl has been transferred to the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah.
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