"Al-Najem Ambagui, a farmer aged 52, hanged his 19-year-old daughter Shakhla at his home 40 days ago because she had joined Al-Qaeda," said a police officer in Baquba, the capital of Diyala province.

The girl was "buried in a canal near his home in Mandali," he said on condition of anonymity, referring to a town inhabited by Kurdish Shiites and a strong Sunni minority 100 kilometres (62 miles) northeast of Baghdad.

"Prisoners of Al-Qaeda in Baghdad had confessed to investigators that they recruited Shakhla to carry out a suicide operation."

Police had gone to arrest her at her Mandali home on Tuesday, but instead detained her father after being unable to find the daughter.

"After three days of interrogation, the father confessed to his crime and led us to where he had buried her," the officer said.

Diyala province is home to Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds, and had long been a bastion of Al-Qaeda before they were routed during major military operations in 2008, although insurgents are still able to hide in the region.

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