Young girl ‘no older than nine’ blows herself up in Syrian police station after calmly asking to use the bathroom
The youngster was reportedly the only victim in the shock blast in Syria, as rebel-held capital city falls to regime forces
A YOUNG girl calmly walked into a police station in Syria and blew herself up, according to reports.
The youngster, believed to have been between seven and nine years of age, is said to have entered the station and asked to use the bathroom, before detonating her suicide vest.
She is believed to have been the only victim, though a police officer was also reportedly injured in the blast in Damascus.
An eyewitness to the incident told Reuters the young girl seemed calm before detonating the explosives in the police station.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the blast took place in the Midan area of the city.
A clip filmed at the scene of the incident in the heart of Damascus shows how parts of the station were reduced to rubble in the blast.
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At one stage in the report, the camera pans to the little girl’s remains, which have been blurred out.
The horror incident comes as children in war-torn Aleppo were reportedly burned alive, while a further 82 civilians were brutally executed as the rebel-controlled city succumbed to regime forces.
The city fell to the Syrian Army as President Bashar al-Assad’s forces closed in.
According to news service, as least one child was burned alive in the violent clashes over the devastated capital city.
There have also been disturbing reports of civilians’ executions by Russian-backed firing squads, with the United Nations (UN) claiming 82 civilians were shot by regime forces.
Speaking on the humanitarian tragedy, UN spokesman Robert Colville said: "We're filled with the deepest foreboding for those who remain in this last hellish corner."
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