Living in a danger zone: in Afghanistan, children are still being recruited for suicide-bombing missions and planting explosives. Photograph: Ashley Gilbertson /VII Network
Behind the security bars of a spartan, white-tiled room, 25 youths are arranging bedrolls on the floor. The workers on the Salvation Army nightshift, who watch over these lone foreign teenagers in a shelter in a gritty corner of Paris, are distributing sheets and sleeping bags; there are a couple of boys from Mali and a contingent of Bangladeshis; the rest have travelled overland, by every conceivable method, fromAfghanistan.
Out of Afghanistan: incredible stories of the boys who walked to Europe
Living in a danger zone: in Afghanistan, children are still being recruited for suicide-bombing missions and planting explosives. Photogr...