Pakistan Girl Forced to Wear Suicide Vest

June 20, 2011

Associated Press|by Abdullah Khan

TIMERGARAH, Pakistan - Police said Monday that militants kidnapped a 9-year-old girl on her way to school and forced her to wear a suicide bomb vest. The girl and police said she managed to escape her captors as they directed her to attack a paramilitary checkpoint in northwest Pakistan.
Police presented Sohana Jawed, dressed in a blue and white school uniform, at a news conference in Lower Dir district. Militants in Pakistan have often used young boys to carry out attacks, but the use of young girls is rare.

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