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'Instant paradise': A child bomber's journey

By Agence France Presse In Spin Boldak | China Daily | Updated: 2016-04-20 07:53

At first glance Mohibullah looks an ordinary Afghan teenager, wide-eyed with a tender smile, a little peach fuzz and a boyish dream of becoming a kick boxer. But this 15-year-old is languishing in prison - jailed after the Taliban preyed on him to become a suicide bomber.

The runaway teen was apprehended in 2014 as he was about to blow himself up outside a district governor's office. A failed mission that has left him locked up in juvenile detention in the southern Kandahar city.

Mohibullah's eyes welled up as he described how he was indoctrinated about the glories of martyrdom as a shortcut to a paradise, filled with chaste virgins and lakes of milk and honey.

'Instant paradise': A child bomber's journey

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