Tried to carry out an attack on border police in Helmand province
Police: She was encouraged to carry out the attack by her brother
The girl is said to be in a state of shock and confusion
By JILL REILLY
PUBLISHED: 15:36 GMT, 6 January 2014 | UPDATED: 15:40 GMT, 6 January 2014
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Terrifying: A young Afghan girl has been detained wearing a suicide vest in southern Afghanistan
A ten-year girl was stopped by Afghan police wearing an explosive suicide vest as she tried to carry out a deadly attack
The Interior Ministry said police had apprehended the young girl who had intended to carry out a suicide attack against Afghan border police in southern Helmand province.
The girl, named as Spozhmay, by NDTV, is reported to be as young as ten and thought to be the sister of a prominent Taliban commander, is said to be in a state of shock and confusion.
In a statement, the Interior Ministry said the girl claimed her brother, a local Taliban commander, had sent her on the mission.
According to 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 now been transferred to the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah.
A photo shows the young girl sitting alone on a sofa eating an orange.
In 2011 an eight-year-old girl died after she was tricked into carrying a concealed bomb close to a police vehicle, where it was remotely detonated.
The incident occurred in a remote village called Uwshi, in the Charchino District, said Fazal Ahmad Shirzad, the police chief of Uruzguan Province.
Terrifying: A young Afghan girl has been detained wearing a suicide vest in southern Afghanistan, officials say. Named as Spozhmay she is reported to be as young as eight
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
In July it emerged that Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan are bribing starving children as young as eight years old to plant deadly roadside booby traps, be decoys in ambushes and even act as suicide bombers.
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poor kid...This world is filled with killers of all kinds and all names 
Why can't people live and let others live.?
