9 Year Boy Forced to Wear Bomb Vest

PESHAWAR - Fear has not disappeared from his face when Sohana Jawed recounts the horrific. 9 years old boy was kidnapped while going to school in Peshawar, Pakistan.

By a militant group that kidnapped her, Sohana forced to wear vests containing the bomb and told him to close a paramilitary post. Sohana recounted the incident that happened in a police press conference in Peshawar on Monday (20/6/20110).

Militant groups often use young boys as the bomb carrier, but take advantage of girls is extremely rare.

Sohana who sits in third grade elementary school was smothering the two women on their way to school and then he put in a car on Saturday (18/06/2011). The boy said the woman, in the car there were two men.

One kidnapper locked her with a handkerchief and made him unconscious, said in a television interview Sohana secar conducted separately.

When he woke up and cried, one of the women gave him a cake that turns him unconscious again. When he woke again, he was in a strange house.

"This morning, they forced me to wear a heavy jacket and then took me into the car again," said the boy.

The vest contained about 9 kilograms of explosives. "It is estimated, the bomb will be detonated from a distance because that took a child," said Saleem Marwat, police chief of Lower Dir.

The kidnappers took him to a checkpoint controlled paramilitary Frontier Corps is about 10 kilometers from Timergarah, the main town in Lower Dir District.

When the kidnappers came out of the car, Sohana ran toward the soldiers as he showed his vest, Marwat said.

"I got a chance off the hand of the woman and fled," said Sohana.

When the paramilitary soldiers noticed that occur, the kidnappers had fled. According Marwat, it held the operation to find them.

Unclear reasons kidnappers did not detonate the suicide bomb after Sohana escape. "Maybe they panicked and ran away," Marwat said.

Asif Khan, police chief Hashtnagri, place of residence and abducted Sohana claim, stated not yet received reports of children missing and have not managed to find people with the name Sohana Jawed.

Police will question Sohana Lower Dir further after he was questioned psychiatrist who would help overcome the trauma.

"The police will try to get information from him after recovering mental state," Marwat said.