Kabul - Seven policemen were killed and at least one was missing in a Taliban ambush in southern Afghanistan, a local police official said Sunday.

The police were patrolling in Godal area of Zena Khan district in southern Ghazni province on Saturday evening, when their vehicle came under fire by Taliban militants, Mohammad Zaman, deputy provincial police chief, said.

"Seven police forces including the acting police chief of the district were killed in the attack," Zaman said.

Kabul - The governor of Afghanistan's southern Logar province was killed when his vehicle was blown up by a roadside bomb Saturday, police said. Taliban militants claimed responsibility.

Abdullah Wardak and three of his bodyguards were killed in Paghman district of Kabul province on their way to Logar, 40 kilometres south of Kabul city, said Abdul Razaaq, police chief of the district.

"It was around 8:00 am (0330 GMT) that a roadside bomb was remotely detonated when the governor's vehicle was passing by," Razaaq said.

Kabul - Taliban insurgents killed one NATO soldier in southern Afghanistan, while an ambush on a NATO supply convoy left 10 militants and five Afghan security guards dead, officials said Saturday.

The soldier, whose nationality was withheld by the coalition's statement, was killed when his patrol was attacked by insurgents on Friday.

The statement did not provide details about the exact location of the incident.

Kabul - An Afghan provincial governor for southern Logar province was killed when his vehicle was blown up by a roadside bomb on Saturday, police said.

Abdullah Wardak and three of his bodyguards were killed in Paghman district of Kabul province on their way to Logar, some 40 kilometres south of Kabul city, said Abdul Razaaq, police chief of the district.

"It was around 8:00 am (0330 GMT) that a roadside bomb was remotely detonated when the governor's vehicle was passing by," Razaaq said.

London - A British soldier has died in a roadside explosion in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, raising to 118 the number of British servicemen killed in Afghanistan since 2001.

The Ministry of Defence in London said Thursday that the soldier, from the Royal Logistics Corps, was on routine patrol in the town of Musa Qala.

Kabul - A suicide attack against a US private security firm in southern Afghanistan killed two civilians and wounded six others, while a NATO soldier was killed in a roadside bomb blast in the same region, officials said Thursday.

The bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into a convoy of a US private security company in southern city of Kandahar, the provincial capital of the same name, on Thursday afternoon, killing two passers-by civilians, Zelmai Ayoubi, spokesman for the provincial governor said.

He said six other civilians were wounded in the attack, but there were no casualties among the personnel of the company.