Pakistani girl said she escaped kidnappers who tried to get her to bomb checkpoint

Juel News-A brave 9-year-old girl said she escaped militants who kidnapped her on her way to school and forced her to wear a suicide bomb vest, police in Pakistan said.

At a news conference with Pakistani police, Sohana Jawed said she was nabbed near her home on the way to school by two women and forced into a car with two men inside.

One of the men then knocked her unconscious by putting an apparently drugged handkerchief over her mouth. When she woke up, she was given a drugged cookie by one of the women and passed out again.

The second time she awoke, the frightened third grader found herself in a strange home, she said. She was forced to put on the vest and then forced into a car.

Police said Sohana escaped by breaking free of one of the women who was holding her and running towards the checkpoint that she was supposed to attack. Once the soldiers realized what had happened, the kidnappers were long gone.

"I got the chance to release my hand from the woman and run," she said.

Police believe that the vest was remote-controlled, but it's not immediately clear why it wasn't detonated once she reached the checkpoint.

"They put one suicide vest on me, but it did not fit. Then they put on a second one," Sohana said according to Reuters. "I threw away the vest and started shouting (for help)as I came close to the checkpost and they [security forces] took me into custody."

The Associated Press cautioned that reports from security incidents in the country are sometimes wrong - and that police in Pehawar, where Sohana is reportedly from, don't have any reports of missing children.

But police said that they were waiting until Sohana saw a psychiatrist to help her cope with the trauma of the incident before questioning her further.

Terrorists in the country sometimes use boys to carry out the suicide attacks, but it is rare to use girls, experts said.
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