Taliban terrorists force 8-year-old girl into suicide bombing at police checkpoint in Afghanistan
Taliban militants forced an 8-year-old girl to carry a bag filled with explosives to an Afghan police checkpoint where it went off and killed her, authorities said.
No one else was hurt, but the chilling episode is believed to have involved the youngest child ever used in a suicide attack in Afghanistan.
The incident happened Saturday in central Uruzgan province, the Interior Ministry said.
"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 said in a statement, the Guardian newspaper reported.
"As the girl was getting close to the police, it exploded and killed the girl."
The Taliban has denied using child bombers, but Afghan government officials say it has periodically occurred.
The assault was one of several shocking bombings in the past week on both sides of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
On Saturday, a husband-and-wife team of suicide bombers attacked a police station in Pakistan, killing eight officers and two civilians.
The same day, Taliban militants detonated a massive car bomb outside the maternity ward of an Afghan hospital, killing as many as 35 people.
Last week, police in Pakistan managed to defuse a bomb strapped to a 9-year-old girl who said she had been kidnapped and sent towards a checkpoint.
"They told me: 'You keep on reciting Koranic verses till you push the button'," she told authorities.
Eight Year Old Girl Used As 'Suicide' Bomber
Taliban insurgents used an eight-year-old girl carrying a bag of explosives to attack a police checkpost in central Afghanistan, the Afghan government said on Sunday, making her one of the youngest child bombers of the decade-old conflict.The incident took place in Char Chino district of central Uruzgan province, the interior ministry said. "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," it added."As the girl was getting close to the police, it exploded and killed the girl."
Any politicians or diplomats out there who think they can "sit down" and negotiate with terrorists are delusional and/or complicit in blatant crimes committed against humanity.
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