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 casualties
Bomb blast: The girl was killed after being given explosives by the Taliban (file picture)
There 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.
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