An earlier suicide attack in Kunduz province killed 10 people on Friday. (SKY)
The Taliban tricked an 8 year-old girl into delivering a bomb to the local police. The bomb was wrapped in a cloth.
The Daily Times reported:
An eight-year-old girl was killed when a bag of explosives given to her by Taliban insurgents exploded as she approached a police outpost in southern Afghanistan.
‘The insurgents handed over a bag with a homemade bomb to an eight-year-old girl and asked her to take it to police forces,’ the Ministry of Interior said in a statement.
‘As the girl was getting close to the police, it exploded and killed the girl.’ There were no police casualtiesThere have been occasional cases of insurgents using female bombers — or more commonly of fighters dressing as women in head-to-toe burqa coverings — but the use of children had been almost unheard of until recently.
In May, Afghan police paraded four boys, all under 13, they said had been recruited as bombers from their homes in neighbouring Pakistan. One of the boys said they had been told they would live through the suicide attacks.
The Taliban later denied they were recruiting children to carry out suicide attacks.
