A 10-year-old girl has been apprehended with a suicide bomb vest strapped to her chest in Afghanistan.
The Afghan Interior Ministry said police had apprehended the girl was on her way to carry out a suicide attack against border police in southern Helmand province.
In a statement, the ministry said the girl claimed her brother, a local Taliban commander, had sent her on the mission.
Afghan forces are seeing their casualties mount as the US-led international force there pulls back ahead of its withdrawal at the end of 2014.
Meanwhile, a provincial official in Afghanistan say a suicide car bomber has attacked a security checkpoint in the country's east, killing three police officers.
