Afghan girl killed in explosion

approached a police outpost in southern Afghanistan, the government said yesterday.
“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 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.
In May, Afghan police paraded four boys, all under 13, they said had been recruited as bombers from their homes in neighbouring Pakistan. One of the boys said they had been told they would live through the suicide attacks. – Reuters.