An 8-year-old Afghan girl wearing a suicide vest has been detained by police in Afghanistan.
She was detained on Sunday night in Helmand province, as she tried to carry out an attack against border police wearing a suicide jacket, a spokesman for the Afghan interior ministry told the BBC.
Police believe she was encouraged to carry out the attack by her brother. She is believed to be the sister of a prominent Taliban leader.
She could not operate the button to detonate the suicide vest or she was arrested before she could carry the attack, the BBC’s Bilal Sarwary said.
The girl has now been transferred to the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah.
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