Kabul  - A NATO soldier died and two others were wounded in an explosion in southern Afghanistan, the military said on Monday.

The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), which gave the information regarding the blast in a statement, did not identify the nationalities of the dead or wounded soldiers, citing the organization's policy.

The statement said that the explosion occurred on Sunday in a southern region, but did not say where exactly in the south the incident took place.

On Sunday, a suicide bomber attacked a NATO-led Canadian military convoy in southern Kandahar province, killing an Afghan child and wounding three NATO soldiers and two Afghan civilians.

The latest death brought the number of foreign forces killed in Afghanistan so far this year to more than 60 soldiers. Most of the soldiers were killed in Taliban-led attacks.

Taliban militants, who lost power in Afghanistan in late 2001 in a US military invasion, have vowed a bloody insurgency to oust the Western-backed Afghan government and to expel some 70,000 international troops from the country. (dpa)