KABUL — Insurgents tricked an 8-year-old girl in a remote area of central Afghanistan into carrying a bomb wrapped in a cloth and then detonated the bomb remotely when she was close to a police vehicle, the Afghan authorities said Sunday.
Only the girl was killed in the blast, which occurred in Uwshi Village of Charchino District, said Fazal Ahmad Shirzad, the police chief of Uruzguan province.
Shirzad said he believed that the girl was unaware that the bag she had been given by Taliban insurgents held a bomb. The girl’s body was later “taken to a nearby security check post, and the police called her relatives,” he said.
In Logar province in southeastern Afghanistan, the death toll in the Saturday bombing at a hospital in a small town rose to 37 as people who were severely injured by the blast died, said Mohammed Zarif Naibkhail, the director of public health for the province.
Four NATO soldiers were also killed, officials reported, including two Spaniards killed by an improvised explosive device and two other soldiers in separate episodes. The New York Times
