Iraqi kills his daughter 'for planning al-Qaida suicide attack'

An Iraqi has killed his 19-year-old daughter after discovering al-Qaida had recruited her as a suicide bomber, police say.

Security forces raided the man’s house in the former Sunni-insurgent stronghold of Baqouba north of Baghdad in search of the girl on suspicion she had ties to al-Qaida but did not find her.

The father, Najim al-Anbaky, told police he killed his daughter a month earlier because he found out she intended to blow herself up in a suicide attack.

A police spokesman said al-Anbaky showed them what he said was her grave.

Al-Qaida recruits women for suicide attacks because they can pass police checkpoints with more ease than men.