Four suspected terrorists were trying to smuggle 41 children abroad , officials said . Police said the 41 children were going for suicide - bomber training . They have been returned to their families , the Home Ministry says . The two were from a group of would-be suicide bombers who were pardoned by President Hamid Karzai last summer , according to a press statement from the Kandahar governor 's office . It 's not the first time police have caught children trying to be suicide bombers .
Four suspected terrorists were trying to smuggle 41 children abroad , officials said . Police said the 41 children were going for suicide - bomber training . They have been returned to their families , the Home Ministry says . It 's not the first time police have caught children trying to be suicide bombers .