Afghans detain woman with bomb under burqa
Mon Dec 24, 2007 6:39am EST
ASADABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A woman carrying a
waistcoat filled with explosives under her
all-enveloping burqa was arrested on Monday in eastern
Afghanistan, provincial officials said, in the first
possible reported case of a female suicide bomber in
the country.
She was arrested on a tip-off in Jalalabad after being
followed by intelligence department officials near the
border with Pakistan.
The elderly woman's identity was not given, but she
was now being questioned, officials said.
It was not immediately clear if the woman wanted to
use the explosives herself or was carrying the bomb to
deliver it.
If the former, she would be the first reported female
suicide bomber in Afghanistan where hundreds of
people, many of them civilians, have been killed this
year alone in such attacks.
Despite the overthrow in 2001 of the Taliban -- who
forced women to wear the all enveloping burqa whenever
outdoors -- most women still wear it.
Security checkpoints in Afghanistan are usually manned
only by men who are not supposed to check women for
fear of offending their modesty.
Afghanistan has seen steady rise in violence in the
past two years, the bloodiest period since Taliban's
ouster.
In the latest reported violence, two civilians were
killed, after they tried to retrieve the bodies of two
men who were beheaded on Sunday by suspected Taliban
insurgents in the southern province of Kandahar, a
provincial official said.
(Writing by Sayed Salahuddin; Editing by David Fox and
Sanjeev Miglani)
© Reuters 2007. All rights reserved.
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