Afghan Police Detain 8-Year-Old Girl With Suicide Vest

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Afghan police have detained an 8-year old girl wearing a suicide vest who sought to attack a border police post. A spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry, Sediq Sediqi, told the BBC on January 6 that the girl was caught the previous night in Helmand Province as she approached the post. Sediqi said the girl is thought to be the sister of a prominent Taliban commander, who encouraged her to attempt the attack. She has now been transferred to the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah and is said to be in a state of shock and confusion.