Man ‘forced’ sister, 10, to go on suicide mission

Afghan police searched for a Taliban commander who allegedly forced his 10-year-old sister to wear an explosives-packed vest for an aborted suicide attack in the southern province of Helmand.

The interior ministry said the girl, named as Spozhmai, was detained before she detonated the vest near a police checkpoint in the district of Khanashin, but some local officials said the trigger button did not work when she pressed it.

The girl said she had been ordered by her brother to undertake the suicide mission, but had decided at the last minute not to go through with it.