Child suicide bomber wounds two Canadians

[daleo]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A boy possibly as young as 10 was used in a suicide-bomb attack against a joint Canadian and Afghan army patrol in Afghanistan on Friday.

Two Canadian soldiers and two Afghan soldiers were wounded in the attack about 40 kilometres from Kandahar city, the military said.
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“He is believed to have been wearing a suicide vest,” said Capt. Amber Bineau, a spokeswoman for the Canadian army battle group in Kandahar.
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The Canadian military released no further information on the nature of the attack, but Afghan police officials speculated that the bomb carried by the child might have been remotely activated.
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I think I will wait a while before making any judgements. There are a lot of qualifiers here ("as young as", "believed to", "speculated").