 Afghan police said on Thursday they killed a would-be suicide bomber disguised in a burqa after he ignored warning shots. | Officers guarding a police compound in Helmand shot the man after he ignored an order to freeze and started running towards the building. He was shot in the forehead and was killed on the spot. When we took off his burqa we found he was a man with suicide vest tied around his body." |
Officers guarding a police compound in southern Helmand province shot the man after he ignored an order to freeze and instead started running towards the building, said provincial police chief Mohammad Hussain Andiwal. "He was shot in the forehead after he ignored warning shots and was killed on the spot. When we took off his burqa we found he was a man with suicide vest tied around his body," Andiwal said. The explosives did not go off and there were no other casualties, he said.
Andiwal said the man was a Taliban militant, but there was no immediate claim of responsibility from the group, which has claimed most of the suicide attacks against Afghan and foreign forces.
Last week a BBC reporter Abdul Samad Rohani in Helmand was abducted and later killed. The Afghan government said its initial findings indicate the Taliban killed the reporter who had received death threats from the extremists, but they said they were not involved in the killing.
| "They were abducting children, were raping them and were video recording the sexual abuse for networks they were in contact with." |
Kabul: Separately, a criminal group, which abducted and raped schoolchildren then recorded the abuse to make pornographic videos, has been busted in Kabul, intelligence officials said. The group of four people had kidnapped five children below the age of 12 as they went home from school in the city, said a spokesman for the Afghan National Directorate of Security. "They were abducting children, were raping them and were video recording the sexual abuse for networks they were in contact with," Sayed Ansari told reporters. Ansari said the men had confessed to their crimes. Meanwhile, agents also raided a house where kidnappers kept a man they abducted for ransom in an overnight raid last night, killing the group leader and arresting two others, one of them a woman, he said. |