Profile Of A Teenage Suicide Bomber

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April 21, 2011

Pakistan army soldiers cordon off the area of bombing in Quetta, Pakistan on April 7, 2011. (AP)

Security officials in Pakistan say they now believe the vast majority of those involved in suicide bombings in the country are teenage boys who've been groomed by the Taliban.

A wounded suicide bomber who survived his attack after his explosive vest partially detonated waits to be taken to a hospital. (AP)

Earlier this month, an attack at a shrine in Punjab Province killed some 50 people and left many more injured. But one of the bombers — a schoolboy — survived. The BBC's Aleem Maqbool asked him what made him want to take his own life and the lives of others.

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This segment aired on April 21, 2011.