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An Afghan girl named Spozhmai is held in a border police station in the southeastern part of Helmand province, Afghanistan.

A 9-year-old explains how she ended up wearing a suicide bomb vest in Afghanistan

January 13, 2014Conflict & Justice

Last week, police in Afghanistan detained a young girl they found wearing an explosive-packed suicide vest near a police checkpoint. Now, she has told her story to a BBC correspondent and says she would rather die than return home to the family that forced her to be a suicide bomber.

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