Members of the Taliban have hung the eight-year-old son of a police commander after ordering his father to surrender

The young boy was kidnapped by militants in the Greshk district of Helmand province. He was hanged after they demanded his father give himself up or else the boy would be executed. Children often fall victim to Taliban militants when they carry out attacks. Youngsters have also been used by the Taliban as suicide bombers. Recently, four civilians were killed and 12 others were injured when a 12-year-old suicide bomber blew himself up at a crowded market in eastern Afghanistan.