Kabul - Nine civilians were killed and seven others wounded Wednesday when their vehicle was blown up by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan, a senior police official said.

The blast occurred in Sabari district of the south-eastern province of Khost when a bus en route to provincial capital of the same name was struck by a roadside bomb, police chief Abdul Qayoom Baqizoy said.

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Kabul, Mar. 24 : NATO officials are claiming that a senior Taliban leader responsible for numerous roadside bombings and suicide attacks has been killed along with nine other insurgent fighters.

Maulawi Hassan, described as a well-known Taliban commander in southern Afghanistan, was killed in an attack on Saturday on his compound near Kajaki, in Helmand Province, the New York Times quoted a NATO statement, as saying.

Kabul - NATO claimed on Monday that its forces killed 10 militants including a commander in southern Afghanistan, the region which witnessed the deaths of seven foreign soldiers in separate attacks.

Taliban leader Maulawi Hassan and nine other militants were killed in NATO operation in Kajaki district of southern Helmand province on Saturday, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement.

The militants were killed inside their compound, it said, adding that several weapons and bomb-making materials were discovered.

Kabul  - A foreign soldier serving with NATO forces was killed in an insurgent attack in southern Afghanistan Sunday, according to military sources.

The attack brings to seven the number of NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan in the past three days.

The soldier, whose nationality was not revealed in the statement, died of wounds he sustained in "a hostile incident," the International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) said in statement.

Kabul  - Two Afghan guards and three civilians, all working for a local government official, were killed by foreign soldiers, an Afghan police official said Sunday - but US-led coalition said those killed were militants.

A unit of coalition soldiers landed by helicopter in Emamsahib district of northern Kunduz province Sunday morning and stormed the district mayor's resident, Abdul Rahman Aqtaash, deputy provincial police chief said.

"The forces killed two mayor's bodyguards, two of his servants and his cook," Aqtaash said, adding that forces also seized two of mayor's relatives and took them to an unknown location.