Eight-year-old girl captured as she attempted to detonate suicide vest outside a police station in Afghanistan

• 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

Terrifying: A young Afghan girl has been detained wearing a suicide vest in southern Afghanistan

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

Young recruit: The eight-year-old sits next to a police officer at a police office in Helmand province

Allegations: The Islamic fundamentalists claim they have no children in their ranks

Future threat: Taliban children aged five are pictured being trained to fire guns by extremists in Afghanistan

New recruit: A young boy named only as Neaz told investigators how he was just eight-years-old when he was promised a handful of coins, worth about 60p, if he joined their cause

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